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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1. Chris Hemsworth:

   Back when I was still on the soap, I became incredibly insecure and full of anxiety because I didn't know if I was any good. I spent years being angsty, constantly telling people I wasn't just part of a soap opera, that I was a real artist, and I remember Luke sort of snapping, telling me to shut up, that he was sick of hearing it.

2. James Comey:

   [Obama] said he didn’t want to talk to me about any particular case, ‘cause he was very scrupulous about that. And he said, ‘but I want to just tell you something generally. I appointed you to be FBI director because of yoru integrity and your ability,’ and then he looked me in the eye and said, ‘nothing has happened, nothing, in the last year that has changed my view of that.’ And look, he wasn’t telling me, ‘I agree with what you did,’ he wasn’t telling me ‘you made the right decision.’ He was telling me, ‘I know where it came from, I know you’re not a partisan hack. I know you’re trying to do the right thing.’.

3. Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson:

   I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

4. Jameson Green:

   Telling the truth will lead you to freedom telling the lies will lead you to slavery.

5. Larry Johnson:

   One is telling you to do it; one is telling you don’t, one is telling you it’d be fun.