Telling

What do we mean by telling?

Having force and producing a striking effect. adjective

Revealing previously unknown information. adjective

Effective; impressive; striking: as, a telling speech on tariff reform.

Operating with great effect; effective. adjective

Having force adjective

Revealing information adjective

Serving to convince adjective

Present participle of tell. verb

The act of narration. noun

The disclosure of information. noun

Counting, numbering. noun

Disclosing information or giving evidence about another noun

Powerfully persuasive adjective

An act of narration noun

Disclosing unintentionally adjective

Producing a strong effect adjective

Informing by words noun

(archaic outside of idioms) To count, reckon, or enumerate.

To narrate.

To convey by speech; to say.

To instruct or inform.

To order; to direct, to say to someone.

To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.

To reveal.

To be revealed.

To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.

To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer.

To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.

(authorship) To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show

Words that are spelled similarly to telling:
telling, selling, yelling, welling, tilling, felling, belling, jelling, gelling, tolling, helling, celling, elling, melling, tellina, tellin, stelling, kelling, telline, pelling, delling.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word telling:
jokes, truth, loves, joke, story, stories, tale, wants, tales, knows, tells, tell, anyone, loved, everyone, hurt, asks, lover, want, you, going, how, kill, know, happened, wrong, hear, leave, really, lie, told, anything, think, asking, marry, gets, affair, everything, stay, tries, thing, get.

Words that rhyme with telling:
compelling, dwelling, swelling, selling, spelling, storytelling, yelling, misspelling, welling, expelling, felling, bestselling, belling, shelling, excelling, smelling, jelling, propelling, rappelling, dispelling, gelling, quelling, repelling, foretelling, elong, schelling, knelling, retelling, helling, paralleling, rebelling, celling, melling, reselling, short selling, snelling, lake dwelling, fehling, quellung, overselling, well hung, schmeling, pile dwelling, underselling, outselling, stelling, kelling, behling, gehling, single dwelling, meling, flewelling, delling, wehling, bell hung, cell lung, hotel ling, hsieh ling, l hung, l ing, lewelling, mehling, rehling, sell ing, smell hung, stehling, tell ing.

Adjectives that are often used to describe telling:
story, more, fortune, most, worth, truth, tale, mere, less, oral, simple, hard, time, dramatic, straightforward, romantic, plain, honest, vivid, pathetic, imaginative, autobiographical, comfortable, brave, saga, legend, lively, skilful, history.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective telling:
point, sessions, session, ability, tradition, off, technique, cards, art, process, style, device, business, power, game, pictures, task, book, moment, stories, case, gift, method, books, situation, strategy, faculty, quality, function, picture, mode, machine, traditions, friend, woman, contest, animal, englishman, talent, voice, hour, feature, activity, activities, gipsy, poetry, mood, spirit, instinct, approach, games, age, habit, scene, practices, aspect, difference, medium, capacity, booth, event, skill, purposes, model, qualities, element, conventions, competition, question, eyes, seer, manner, events, practice, gypsy, animals, contests, preceptor, situations, ballads, circle, test, impulse, factor, poems, hours, servant, literature, tribe, tent.

Consonant match to telling:
tooling, tailing, tilling, tiling, tolling, toiling, toling, toweling, too long, tai long, tai ling, tai lung, tail hung, teeling, tell ing, ti lung, to long, tool long, tu long, two long.

Words that sound like telling:
telling, tilling, tellin, toiling, tolling, tiling, tailing, tooling, toweling, toling, tell him, delling, tallinn, tellen, telem, telon, dulling, talin, stelling, tallin, dilling, too long, tell on, tai long, talang, helling, tilan, yelling, dealing, dialing, welling, dueling, shelling, dowling, tonguing, doling, dolling, duelling, dooling, tinging, wehling, touching, talon, tele, tilting, tella, talen, tallon, trilling, tela, stilling, tylan, toulon, tolan, towelling, tele-, tollon, tell of, taillon, teilen, tallan, telah, tollan, tollen, tableing, twilling, hilling, hulling, tanging, tell-all, tell all, chilling, teaching, stealing, styling, stalling, tearing, teething, tackling, shilling, steeling, schilling, staling, taring, tailoring, tallage, delong, tallying, teli, taing, teeing, delon, tabling, tailings, telia, dellen, delen, stooling, tailage, talcking.