Synonyms for telling
ˈtɛl ɪŋtelling

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1. telling

   Synonyms:
   effective, powerful, pointed

   Antonyms:
   weak, ineffective, pointless

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1. relation, telling, recountingnoun

   an act of narration

   "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable"

   Synonyms:
   notification, sexual relation, tattle, intercourse, sexual intercourse, singing, copulation, recounting, relation back, carnal knowledge, apprisal, relation, coitus, sex act, relative, congress, sexual congress, coition

   Antonyms:
   uninformative, uneffective, ineffectual, ineffective, dissuasive

2. telling, apprisal, notificationnoun

   informing by words

   Synonyms:
   presentment, recounting, tattle, notice, relation, singing, notification, apprisal

   Antonyms:
   uninformative, ineffective, dissuasive, ineffectual, uneffective

3. tattle, singing, tellingadjective

   disclosing information or giving evidence about another

   Synonyms:
   vocalizing, recounting, tattle, relation, singing, notification, apprisal

   Antonyms:
   dissuasive, uninformative, uneffective, ineffectual, ineffective

4. revealing, telling, telltale(a)adjective

   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:
   uneffective, ineffectual, dissuasive, uninformative, ineffective

5. cogent, telling, weightyadjective

   powerfully persuasive

   "a cogent argument"; "a telling presentation"; "a weighty argument"

   Synonyms:
   heavy, corpulent, obese, weighty, grave, revealing, telltale(a), rotund, impressive, grievous, cogent

   Antonyms:
   dissuasive, uneffective, ineffective, ineffectual, uninformative

6. impressive, tellingadjective

   producing a strong effect

   "gave an impressive performance as Othello"; "a telling gesture"

   Synonyms:
   weighty, revealing, impressive, cogent, telltale(a)

   Antonyms:
   uninformative, dissuasive, uneffective, ineffectual, ineffective

Matched Categories

1. • Informing
   • Narration

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1. cogentadjective

   Submitted by Providence on July 16, 2023  

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1. tellingadjective

   Synonyms:
   effective

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1. tellingadjective

   Synonyms:
   effective, cogent, potent, conclusive

2. tellingnoun

   Synonyms:
   notification, apprising, communication, relation, narration, recital, divulgement

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1. List of paraphrases for "telling":

   eloquent, saying, tell, revealing, say

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How to use telling in a sentence?

1. Miles Tamboli:

   Being pro-safety means telling the truth about what actually protects a community, and it is not soldiers trained for combat doing the work of police officers.

2. Mike Edmonson:

   You could hear him breathing, telling him, `You're lucky. You're lucky -- you're going to die soon.' That's the words that came out of his mouth.

3. Ted Cruz:

   This is a choice that you are telling the American people that ‘ This is an individual that I trust and, more important, this is an individual that you can trust to lead this country, no matter what might happen, ’.

4. New York:

   But she said he regularly grabbed her by the shoulders - sometimes hard enough to leave marks - and, on one occasion, yanked her out of a cab by her wrist after an argument when she wanted to stay in the car. During one argument, she recalled, he twisted her arm behind her back, shoved her into a bedroom and held the door closed from the other side so she couldn't get out, telling her to remain there until she was 'calm.' Eventually, Ms. Fifield said, she fell asleep and left the next morning.

5. Von Rumohr:

   It seemed like it would never recover from that. Travel agents were telling customers to fly anything but a 727. It came back from that to be one of its most successful aircraft.