revealing

1. 1.

   the speech act of making something evident

   Synonymsdisclosurerevelation

   Broaderspeech act

   Narrowertattledisplaydivulgencediscoverygiveawayinformingleakexposure

Other forms of revealing

plural

revealings·

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 revealing

What does revealing mean?

revealing means "disclosing unintentionally something concealed". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in revealing?

revealing has 3 syllables: re-vea-ling. The stress falls on "vea". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈvilɪŋ/.

What is another word for revealing?

Close synonyms include telling, telltale, disclosure, revelation. 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 revealing?

The recorded antonyms are concealing.

Is revealing a common word?

revealing 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.