telling

The word “telling” has 2 syllables: tell-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈtɛlɪŋ/

What is synonym and antonym for telling?

In the thesaurus, “telling” has 214 synonyms and 49 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for telling along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for telling

acknowledging
acquainting
adjuring
admitting
advertising
advising
affirming
airing
alerting
alleging
announcing
appointing
apprising
articulating
asking
asserting
assigning
assuring
authoritative
authorizing
averring
avouching
avowing
baring
begging
beseeching
betraying
bidding
blabbering
blabbing
blazing
blurting
bolting
breathing
briefing
bringing out
bringing to light
broadcasting
calculating
catching up
certifying
charging
charting
checking
chirping
chronicling
clearing
clothing
coercing
cogent
commanding
commenting
commissioning
communicating
compelling
computing
conceding
conclusive
conducting
confessing
confiding
constraining
controlling
convincing
couching
counseling
counselling
counting
debunking
decisive
declaring
definitive
delineating
delivering
depicting
describing
detailing
directing
disabusing
disclosing
discovering
discussing
disenchanting
disillusioning
disinterring
divulging
drawling
educating
effective
enjoining
enlightening
entreating
enumerating
enunciating
exposing
expressing
familiarizing
filling in
forceful
forcing
formulating
formulizing
gasping
getting off
giving
giving away
hipping
imparting
important
informing
instructing
itemizing
leading
leaking
lecturing
letting someone know
lipping
looking
managing
marking
material
mouthing
murmuring
narrating
notifying
numbering
obliging
ordering
overseeing
owning
particularizing
passing
persuasive
pertinent
petitioning
phrasing
placarding
posting
proclaiming
promulgating
publicizing
publishing
purring
putting
putting into words
raking up
reassuring
reciting
reckoning
recounting
reeling off
rehearsing
relating
relevant
remarking
rendering
reporting
requesting
requiring
revealing
satisfying
saying
schooling
setting forth
sharing
shooting
shouting
showing up
significant
sketching
smoking out
snarling
sound
sounding
speaking
spilling
spluttering
spouting
squealing
stating
strong
superintending
supervising
tabling
tabulating
talking
tallying
teaching
totaling
totalling
tutoring
unbosoming
uncloaking
unclothing
uncovering
undeceiving
undraping
unearthing
unmasking
unveiling
uttering
valid
ventilating
venting
verbalizing
versing
vocalizing
voicing
warning
warranting
weighty
well-founded
whispering
wording

Antonyms for telling

beclouding
bedimming
befogging
camouflaging
cloaking
clouding
concealing
darkening
disguising
eclipsing
enshrouding
feeble
following
gilding
groundless
hiding
immaterial
inconclusive
inconsequential
indecisive
ineffective
insignificant
invalid
irrelevant
keeping
masking
minding
misinforming
misleading
obeying
obscuring
observing
overcasting
overshadowing
shading
shaky
shrouding
stifling
suppressing
uncompelling
unconvincing
unfounded
unimportant
unpersuasive
unsound
varnishing
veiling
weak
whitewashing

Meanings of telling

verb
1. (archaic outside of idioms) To count, reckon, or enumerate.
2. To narrate.
3. To convey by speech; to say.
4. To instruct or inform.
5. To order; to direct, to say to someone.
6. To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
7. To reveal.
8. To be revealed.
9. To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
10. To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer.
11. To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
12. (authorship) To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show.
adjective
1. Having force, or having a marked effect; weighty, effective.
2. Revealing information; bearing significance.
3. Serving to convince.
noun
1. The act of narration.
2. The disclosure of information.
3. Counting, numbering.
4. (usually in the negative) Ability to determine.

Example Sentences

She was telling a story that had everyone captivated.
He kept telling the same joke over and over.
I could tell by her expression that she was telling the truth.
The evidence was very telling in proving his innocence.
They were telling ghost stories around the campfire.

On this page you'll find 263 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to telling, such as: acknowledging, acquainting, adjuring, admitting, advertising, advising, affirming.

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