Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having force and producing a striking effect.
- adj. Revealing previously unknown information.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Effective; impressive; striking: as, a telling speech on tariff reform.
Wiktionary
- adj. having force
- adj. revealing information
- adj. serving to convince
- v. present participle of tell.
- n. The act of narration.
- n. The disclosure of information.
- n. archaic Counting, numbering.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Operating with great effect; effective.
WordNet 3.0
- n. disclosing information or giving evidence about another
- adj. powerfully persuasive
- n. an act of narration
- adj. disclosing unintentionally
- adj. producing a strong effect
- n. informing by words
Examples
“And I did it all without a label telling me I needed to Auto-Tune myself, or have Rihanna guest on my album to drive up record sales.”
“The little we do is the label telling us what's happening and we go, That's weird.”
“Francesca peered down at him, her expression telling Zak what he already knew: It was an utterly stupid question.”
“So talking about pop records, it's usually the powers that be and the people at the label telling him he should do”
“The only difference in the telling is the coda to both versions.”
“The movie beings with a title telling us we are looking at Norway, 709 AD.”
“The traditional elements of cyberpunk aren't present in this book except that the telling is a detective thriller set in the future.”
“And then, wham, in your face is a label telling you exactly how many calories you're drinking.”
“But he says he will continue with what he calls telling the truth, and that's what he plans to do -- Catherine.”
“Usually, a "gate" is a label telling the media to start a hype, being proposed by someone with limited imagination.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘telling’.
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some-ing
king, offering, blessing, coping, earnings, trappings, breeding, during, offing, refreshing, sitting, outing and 208 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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My Revised GRE Preparation List
Words from the new GRE : This list consists mostly of words from the book Magoosh-GRE-vocab-ebook, which is one of the best vocab materials available, especially if you have started preparing one ...
alacrity, prosaic, veracity, paucity, contrite, trite, maintain, laconic, pugnacious, disparate, egregious, innocuous and 533 more...
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Magooosh
impugn, repudiate, sardonic, barnstorm, bemoan, unseemly, cornerstone, noisome, malodorous, retroactively, spuriously, spasmodically and 217 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate, amalgam and 1781 more...
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magoosh1
aberration, aboveboard, abysmal, ace, affable, aghast, alacrity, ambiguous, ambivalent, ameliorate, amenable, amiable and 222 more...
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Magoosh
menace, injunction, juggernaut, refrain, mnemonic, abysmal, grueling, ace, gregarious, amiable, wacky, esoteric and 201 more...
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Magoosh-Trick "Easy" multi-meanings
stem, blinkered, check, checkered, raft, involved, retiring, expansive, moment, base, imbibe, inundate and 17 more...
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More than Meets the Eye
Words that mean more than what I thought they do.
arch, husband, offices, swell, slight, jot, see, graft, plumb, hitch, psych, rake and 61 more...
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Magoosh GRE Vocabulary
alacrity, veracity, paucity, contrite, prosaic, innocuous, maintain, laconic, pugnacious, disparate, egrigious, profuse and 33 more...
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GRE secondary meaning
trite vocab with starling alternative meaning
discount, escalate, august, catholic, stem, blinkered, check, checkered, raft, involved, retiring, expansive and 15 more...
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Day 2
Easy yet Tricky
stem, blinkered, checkered, raft, involved, retiring, expansive, moment, base, benighted, galvanize, hedge and 8 more...
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GRE words
prosaic, alacrity, veracity, paucity, maintain, contrite, laconic, pugnacious, egregious, innocuous, candid, erratic and 37 more...
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