Revealingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɹɪˈviːlɪŋ/, /ɹəˈviːlɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA: /ɹɪˈvilɪŋ/, /ɹəˈvilɪŋ/
• 韻: -iːlɪŋ
• ハイフネーション: re‧veal‧ing

形容詞

revealing (comparative more revealing, superlative most revealing)

1. Informative.
   • 2019 July 24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, in Jewish Currents‎:

     Lest anyone on the left think that Tucker [Carlson] and his friends are potential anti-capitalist allies, their specific objections to corporate capitalism are revealing. To them, the real issue is not labor exploitation, but rather the “corporate alliance with the progressive left.”

   a revealing analysis

2. (of clothing) Allowing more than is usual to be seen.

   Her shirt is rather revealing.

派生語

動詞

revealing

1. present participle and gerund of reveal

名詞

revealing (plural revealings)

1. An act of revealing; the process of revealing; something revealed.

   Synonyms: revelation, disclosure, uncovering, unveiling; apocalypse

   Coordinate term: realization

   It became clear that we were witnessing a great revealing of secrets.

   • 1836, William Tait, Mrs. Christian Isobel Johnstone, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 3, page 113:

     In these letters, and the remembered conversations, we have fuller revealings of the inner man, greater depth of discovery into that vast and labyrinthine mind […]

   • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:

     She paused a moment; while vaguely to his secret self Pierre revolved these strange revealings; but now he was all attention again as Isabel resumed.

アナグラム

• Graveline, laveering