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Definition of Revealing
1. Adjective. Disclosing unintentionally. "A telltale patch of oil on the water marked where the boat went down"
Similar to: Informative, Informatory
Derivative terms: Telling, Telltale
2. Noun. The speech act of making something evident.
Specialized synonyms: Singing, Tattle, Telling, Display, Divulgement, Divulgence, Discovery, Discovery, Giveaway, Informing, Ratting, Leak, News Leak, Exposure
Generic synonyms: Speech Act
Derivative terms: Disclose, Reveal
3. Adjective. Showing or making known. "Her dress was scanty and revealing"
Definition of Revealing
1. Adjective. Of clothing: allowing to see more than is usual. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of reveal) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Revealing
1. reveal [v] - See also: reveal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Revealing
Literary usage of Revealing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Diplomatic Relations of England with the Quadruple Alliance, 1815-1830 by Louis Calvert, Myrna M. Boyce, Paul Padgette (1918)
"CHAPTER V THE EYE AND THE HANDS " Five-finger Exercises " Necessary for the Actor,
Too —revealing the Unexpressed Emotions—Irving as Becket—"One Thing at a ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1885)
"A CASE OF PAINFUL PARAPLEGIA—DEATH- AUTOPSY revealing SARCOMA OF THE VERTEBRAE.
BY GWH KEMPER, MD MUNCIE, IND. I DEEM a report of the following interesting ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"PASSAGES revealing HIS FEELINGS TOWARD THE END OF LIFE You talk of the great name
which I shall leave behind me, and which posterity is never to let die; ..."
4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"upon them, revealing by his personal disclosure of his own religious need the
positive directions which theology must take ..."
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