Definitions for revealing
rɪˈvi lɪŋre·veal·ing

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1. disclosure, revelation, revealing(adj)

   the speech act of making something evident

2. revealing, telling, telltale(a)(adj)

   disclosing unintentionally

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

3. revealing(adj)

   showing or making known

   "her dress was scanty and revealing"

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1. revealing(Adjective)

   Of clothing: allowing to see more than is usual.

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1. Revealing

   of Reveal

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1. Revealing

   Revealing is an album by American guitarist James Blood Ulmer featuring George Adams, Cecil McBee, and Doug Hammond recorded in 1977 and released on the In + Out label. The album marks the first recording by the guitarist but was not wideley issued outside Europe before 1990.

How to pronounce revealing?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of revealing in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of revealing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of revealing in a Sentence

1. Elijah Cummings:

   It is revealing that the Republicans -- yet again -- are leaking cherry-picked excerpts of documents to support their preconceived political narrative without allowing committee members to even see their conclusions or vote on them first, by leaking information to reporters on condition that they not disclose it to Democrats, Republicans are intentionally bypassing the normal congressional vetting process designed to distinguish fact from fiction.

2. Jean Cocteau:

   True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

3. Antonin Artaud:

   The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it. The fault lies with your moldy systems, your logic of 2 + 2 = 4. The fault lies with you, Chancellors, caught in the net of syllogisms. You manufacture engineers, magistrates, doctors, who know nothing of the true mysteries of the body or the cosmic laws of existence. False scholars blind outside this world, philosophers who pretend to reconstruct the mind. The least act of spontaneous creation is a more complex and revealing world than any metaphysics.

4. James Thurber:

   The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people --that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

5. James Thurber:

   The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

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