- revealing, telling, telltale - disclosing unintentionally; "a telling smile"; "a telltale panel of lights"; "a telltale patch of oil on the water marked where the boat went down"
Antonyms: uninformative, uninstructive (indirect, via informative)
- revealing - showing or making known; "her dress was scanty and revealing"
Antonym: concealing
- disclosure, revelation, revealing - the speech act of making something evident
--1 is a kind of speech act
--1 has particulars:tattle, singing, telling; display; divulgence, divulgement; discovery; discovery; giveaway; informing, ratting; leak, news leak; exposure Derived form: verb reveal2
- uncover, bring out, unveil, reveal - make visible; "Summer brings out bright clothes"; "He brings out the best in her"; "The newspaper uncovered the President's illegal dealings"
--1 is one way to show
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, impart, break, give away, let out - make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"
--2 is one way to tell
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun revelation2, noun revealing1
They reveal that there was a traffic accident
- reveal, display, show - make clear and visible; "The article revealed the policies of the government"
--3 is one way to communicate, pass on, pass, put across
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun revelation1
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- reveal - disclose directly or through prophets; "God rarely reveal his plans for Mankind"
--4 is one way to disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, impart, break, give away, let out
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun revelation3, noun Revelation4
Somebody ----s something