concealing

1. 1.

   covering or hiding

   “the concealing darkness”

   “concealing curtains prevented discovery”

   Antonymsrevealing

Other forms of concealing

plural

concealings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about concealing

What does concealing mean?

concealing means "the activity of keeping something secret". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in concealing?

concealing has 3 syllables: con-cea-ling. The stress falls on "cea". In IPA it is /kənˈsilɪŋ/.

What is another word for concealing?

Close synonyms include concealment, hiding. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of concealing?

The recorded antonyms are revealing.

Is concealing a common word?

concealing is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with concealing?

2 words rhyme with concealing. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.