Definitions for Telling
ˈtɛl ɪŋTelling

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. relation, telling, recountingnoun

   an act of narration

   "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable"

2. telling, apprisal, notificationnoun

   informing by words

3. tattle, singing, tellingadjective

   disclosing information or giving evidence about another

4. revealing, telling, telltale(a)adjective

   disclosing unintentionally

   "a telling smile"; "a telltale panel of lights"; "a telltale patch of oil on the water marked where the boat went down"

5. cogent, telling, weightyadjective

   powerfully persuasive

   "a cogent argument"; "a telling presentation"; "a weighty argument"

6. impressive, tellingadjective

   producing a strong effect

   "gave an impressive performance as Othello"; "a telling gesture"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. tellingnoun

   The act of narration.

2. tellingnoun

   The disclosure of information.

3. tellingnoun

   Counting, numbering.

4. tellingadjective

   having force

5. tellingadjective

   revealing information

6. tellingadjective

   serving to convince

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Telling

   of Tell

2. Tellingadjective

   operating with great effect; effective; as, a telling speech

Matched Categories

1. • Informing
   • Narration

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Telling' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2100

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Telling' in Written Corpus Frequency: #761

Anagrams for Telling »

1. gillnet

How to pronounce Telling?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Telling in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Telling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of Telling in a Sentence

1. Enrico Dallavecchia:

   He was ahead of his time in terms of understanding risk, if he felt that the returns were not high enough for the risk, he would turn down a deal, even if people underneath him were telling him to do it.

2. Islam Hammad:

   The police said no flags, no swim, but we didn’t know that rule, there was nobody here telling us.

3. Photographer Tom King:

   A lot of the photography that I was seeing was just photography of dead bodies, i didn't feel those pictures were really telling me anything extra apart from somebody being brutally killed, and once you've seen a couple of those pictures you understand what's happening.

4. Mark Levin:

   Do I miss Twitter? No, people keep telling me to go back on Twitter, so apparently they miss me on Twitter.

5. Nancy Krieger:

   In a sense, the body is telling the story.

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