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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
revealing
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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▪ She tried loosening and retying the robe to be more revealing.
▪ It is analytically more revealing and significant to identify actors by the roles they play, for example politicians and officials.
▪ The picture can be made more revealing and informative in various ways.
▪ A more revealing statistic is the percentage of women selected to fight council seats for Labour: 22.
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▪ The most revealing numbers are the net income.
▪ The most revealing example of this type, however, is supplied by Papinian.
▪ Young as she was, these might be considered the most revealing political acts of her life.
▪ The most revealing anecdote that I can tell you about that is from Coventry.
▪ But speech is one of the most revealing aspects of a person.
■ NOUN
insight
▪ Stand by for a revealing insight into your childhood or upbringing.
▪ Hence the helpful and revealing insights of the staff into his cash card habits.
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▪ His second book on Mitterrand is filled with revealing anecdotes and interviews.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An improper and dominant motive would have to be shown for revealing matters which would normally be in the public interest.
▪ As he wrote in a revealing letter dated 20 September 1963: To go there is to destroy the magic.
▪ Figures for the proportion of the total population in the labour force are quite revealing.
▪ I found this account sad but also rather revealing.
▪ More revealing than their obvious differences are those points of overlap between the materialist and the psychoanalytic accounts.
▪ The distribution of problems is also revealing.
▪ The most revealing numbers are the net income.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Revealing

Reveal \Re*veal"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Revealed; p. pr. & vb. n. Revealing.] [F. r['e]v['e]ler, L. revelare, revelatum, to unveil, reveal; pref. re- re- + velare to veil; fr. velum a veil. See Veil.]

  1. To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.

    Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, She might not, would not, yet reveal her own.
    --Waller.

  2. Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction or agency).

    Syn: To communicate; disclose; divulge; unveil; uncover; open; discover; impart; show.

    Usage: See Communicate. -- Reveal, Divulge. To reveal is literally to lift the veil, and thus make known what was previously concealed; to divulge is to scatter abroad among the people, or make publicly known. A mystery or hidden doctrine may be revealed; something long confined to the knowledge of a few is at length divulged. ``Time, which reveals all things, is itself not to be discovered.''
    --Locke. ``A tragic history of facts divulged.''
    --Wordsworth.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
revealing

1590s, past participle adjective from reveal (v.). Related: Revealingly.

Wiktionary
revealing
  1. Of clothing: allowing more than is usual to be seen. n. Something revealed; a revelation. v

  2. (present participle of reveal English)

WordNet
revealing
  1. 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" [syn: telling, telltale(a)]

  2. showing or making known; "her dress was scanty and revealing" [ant: concealing]

  3. n. the speech act of making something evident [syn: disclosure, revelation]

Wikipedia
Revealing

Revealing may refer to:

  • Revelation - in religion, the revealing of things to come
    • Book of Revelation - the Biblical book on revelation
  • Revealing (album) - James Blood Ulmer album
Revealing (album)

Revealing is an album by American guitarist James Blood Ulmer featuring George Adams, Cecil McBee, and Doug Hammond recorded in 1977 and released for the first time in 1990 on the In + Out label.

Usage examples of "revealing".

Her skin was perfect, vibrant and glowing with health, and her skirt clung to her in the breeze, revealing her alluring shape.

The ruler of Reec took a step forward, his eyes revealing an inner sadness.

Akeela waited patiently until finally the door opened, revealing Beith in a disheveled robe and unkempt hair, her red eyes rimmed with sunken bags.

Instead she casually opened her patchwork coat, revealing a curious amulet around her neck.

The roads were still soaked with rain, which made traveling slow, but as the sun rose higher the day began to warm and the puddles slowly dried, revealing the road beneath.

Without a word the steward stepped aside, revealing the torchlit hallway beyond her chamber.

With two hands he pulled both doors open slowly, revealing a chamber awash with candlelight.

A gigantic window let starlight into the room, revealing the dark silhouette of a man gazing out over the city, his hands clasped behind his back, the fingers twitching nervously.

Now that she was with her family again she had doffed her veil, revealing her pretty face.

As Akeela approached, they uncrossed their halberds and bowed, then turned to open the creaking portals, revealing a large, dark chamber.

Flakes of rust fell from the hinges as the door screeched open, revealing a dark and overgrown patch of weeds.

He reached for the door and pulled it open, revealing the forbidden confines of Lionkeep.

A wide archway beckoned up ahead, revealing a royal-sized chamber beyond.

Figgis unhooked the lock and pushed open the door, revealing a vast, dark interior.

Breck shifted them aside, revealing a large wooden chest beneath them.