revealing

comparative more revealing · superlative most revealing

1. Informative; providing new information.

   a revealing analysis

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   Lest anyone on the left think that Tucker [Carlson] and his friends are potential anti-capitalist allies, their specific objections to corporate capitalism are revealing. To them, the real issue is not labor exploitation, but rather the “corporate alliance with the progressive left.”

   2019 July 24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, in Jewish Currents, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2020

   Synonyms: telling

2. Allowing more of the body to be seen than is usual.

   Her shirt is rather revealing.

   Synonyms: scanty

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of reveal

plural revealings

1. An act of revealing; the process of revealing; something revealed.

   It became clear that we were witnessing a great revealing of secrets.

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   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[…]

   1836, William Tait, Mrs. Christian Isobel Johnstone, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 3, page 113

   She paused a moment; while vaguely to his secret self Pierre revolved these strange revealings; but now he was all attention again as Isabel resumed.

   1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities

   Synonyms: revelation, disclosure, uncovering, unveiling, apocalypse