revealing

English

Etymology

From Middle English reveling; equivalent to reveal +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
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Adjective

revealing (comparative more revealing, superlative most revealing)

Informative.
a revealing analysis
Of clothing: allowing more than is usual to be seen.

Translations

of clothing

Chinese:
Mandarin: 會走光, 会走光 (huì zǒuguāng)
Finnish: paljastava (fi)

Greek: αποκαλυπτικός (el) (apokalyptikós)
Russian: открове́нный (ru) (otkrovénnyj)

Verb

revealing

present participle of reveal

Noun

revealing (plural revealings)

Something revealed; a revelation.
- 1836, William Tait, ‎Mrs. Christian Isobel Johnstone, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 3, page 113)
  In these letters, and the remembered conversations, we have fuller revealings of the inner man, greater depth of discovery into that vast and labyrinthine mind […]

Anagrams

Graveline, laveering

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