revealing

revealing
[[t]rɪvi͟ːlɪŋ[/t]]
1) ADJ-GRADED A revealing statement, account, or action tells you something that you did not know, especially about the person doing it or making it.

...a revealing interview.

...Sophie Tucker's revealing autobiography.

Derived words:
revealingly ADV-GRADED

Even more revealingly, he says: `There's no such thing as failure.'

2) ADJ-GRADED Revealing clothes allow more of a person's body to be seen than is usual.

She was wearing a tight and revealing gold dress.


English dictionary. 2008.

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