Definition for Telling:

• producing a strong effect; " gave an impressive performance as Othello"; " a telling gesture"

Synonyms for Telling:

• adj.

  •effective (adjective)
  • cogent.
  •effective, significant (adjective)
  • effectual,
  • satisfactory,
  • solid,
  • convincing,
  • forcible,
  • operative,
  • valid,
  • cogent,
  • impressive,
  • potent,
  • weighty,
  • influential,
  • striking,
  • forceful,
  • decisive,
  • conspicuous,
  • sound,
  • considerable,
  • satisfying,
  • marked,
  • important,
  • crucial,
  • powerful,
  • trenchant,
  • devastating.
  •final (adjective)
  • conclusive.
  •forcible (adjective)
  • forcible.
  •important (adjective)
  • fundamental,
  • crucial,
  • key,
  • serious,
  • central,
  • vital,
  • meaningful,
  • major.
  •persuasive (adjective)
  • convincing.
  •pungent (adjective)
  • mordant.
  •ratiocinative (adjective)
  • ratiocinative.
  •sound (adjective)
  • well-founded.
  •strong (adjective)
  • well-established.

• n.

  •
  • representational,
  • indicative,
  • illocutionary,
  • well-defined,
  • unambiguous,
  • expressive,
  • symbolic.
  •
  • persuasion,
  • convincing,
  • satisfactory,
  • persuasive.
  •crucial (noun)
  • devastating,
  • valid,
  • conspicuous,
  • important,
  • significant.
  •narration (noun)
  • recountal.
  •news (noun)
  • news.
  •report (noun)
  • diary,
  • record,
  • article,
  • account,
  • memoir,
  • anecdote,
  • journal,
  • report,
  • recounting,
  • narrative,
  • description,
  • portrayal,
  • statement,
  • table,
  • chronicle,
  • monograph,
  • summary,
  • treatise,
  • history,
  • log,
  • retelling.
  •telling (noun)
  • forceful,
  • tattle,
  • relation,
  • efficacious,
  • recounting,
  • informatory,
  • impressive,
  • effectual,
  • telltale,
  • cogent,
  • revealing,
  • singing,
  • weighty,
  • apprisal,
  • effective,
  • notification,
  • informative.

• v.

  •reporting (verb)
  • reporting,
  • Chronicling,
  • Tabling,
  • Describing,
  • recording,
  • logging,
  • Journalizing,
  • Stating,
  • portraying,
  • Narrating,
  • summarizing,
  • accounting.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • explanation,
  • paralinguistic,
  • unambiguous,
  • communication,
  • illocutionary,
  • symbolic,
  • valid,
  • much,
  • confession.
  •
  • moving,
  • indicative,
  • news,
  • representational,
  • convincing,
  • significant,
  • pregnant,
  • persuasive.
  •
  • meaningful,
  • significantly,
  • meaning.
  •
  • satisfactory.
  •divulgence
  • revelation.
  •eloquent
  • expressive.
  •vivid
  • graphic.
  •Other relevant words:
  • explanation,
  • painful,
  • acknowledge,
  • plain,
  • profess,
  • saying,
  • meaty,
  • inspiriting,
  • blaspheme,
  • prime,
  • persuasive,
  • profound,
  • magnetic,
  • nervous,
  • effectively,
  • transcendant,
  • detailing,
  • provoking,
  • story,
  • distinguished,
  • strongly,
  • stimulating,
  • relation,
  • admissible,
  • clear,
  • publication,
  • heady,
  • of mark,
  • eloquently,
  • impelling,
  • forcefully,
  • Attestive,
  • predominant,
  • irrefutable,
  • thought-provoking,
  • certify,
  • eye-witness,
  • affirm,
  • pungent,
  • recapitulation,
  • Impanation,
  • reliable,
  • copulation,
  • dissemination,
  • review,
  • upsetting,
  • factual,
  • intoxicating,
  • betrayal,
  • charismatic,
  • imaginative,
  • authoritative,
  • promise,
  • pre-eminent,
  • savage,
  • swelling,
  • confirm,
  • sharp,
  • singing,
  • say,
  • circumstantial,
  • programme,
  • much,
  • fervid,
  • basic,
  • pictorial,
  • charged,
  • primary,
  • felicitous,
  • imposing,
  • yellow,
  • intercommunication,
  • discussion,
  • well-established,
  • dominating,
  • hysterical,
  • sovereign,
  • Abodement,
  • signal,
  • declaration,
  • incisive,
  • disturbing,
  • Relating,
  • compelling,
  • confession,
  • interpretation,
  • gripping,
  • detailed,
  • key,
  • cast,
  • sound,
  • inform,
  • Nuncupative,
  • unmistakeable,
  • salient,
  • revealingly,
  • evocative,
  • high-tension,
  • esteemed,
  • vigorous,
  • mighty,
  • intercourse,
  • intensive,
  • guarantee,
  • congress,
  • effectually,
  • central,
  • powerful,
  • transfer,
  • good,
  • impartation,
  • in force,
  • presumptive,
  • conclusion,
  • vivid,
  • quantification,
  • corrosive,
  • explicit,
  • perturbing,
  • strong,
  • jolting,
  • overmastering,
  • holy water,
  • superior,
  • troubling,
  • important,
  • maddening,
  • recap,
  • eyewitness,
  • lifelike,
  • cumulative,
  • Adducible,
  • firm,
  • revelation,
  • ratiocinative,
  • reputable,
  • controlling,
  • paramount,
  • exciting,
  • weightily,
  • overpowering,
  • innovative,
  • prognosis,
  • effectual,
  • bank,
  • indicative,
  • extreme unction,
  • enunciate,
  • Punchy,
  • vaticination,
  • estimable,
  • notice,
  • sooth,
  • persuasion,
  • justify,
  • tell,
  • numeration,
  • exceptional,
  • recountal,
  • eminent,
  • material,
  • through and through,
  • disquieting,
  • caustic,
  • symbolic,
  • conveyance,
  • Dactylonomy,
  • devastating,
  • piquant,
  • sardonic,
  • piercing,
  • augury,
  • corroborate,
  • satisfactory,
  • plan,
  • vital,
  • solid,
  • telltale,
  • prevalent,
  • imperative,
  • infer,
  • agonizing,
  • well-drawn,
  • insist,
  • sober,
  • corpulent,
  • weighty,
  • impressive,
  • galvanic,
  • espouse,
  • emotive,
  • happy,
  • inflammatory,
  • canonization,
  • recitation,
  • preponderant,
  • substantive,
  • unambiguous,
  • prevailing,
  • high-potency,
  • marked,
  • main,
  • principal,
  • advertisement,
  • mordant,
  • obese,
  • effective,
  • meaning,
  • poignant,
  • indisputable,
  • rare,
  • documentary,
  • adequate,
  • omen,
  • transmission,
  • bitter,
  • Hariolation,
  • transmittal,
  • melodramatic,
  • founded on,
  • graphic,
  • incontrovertible,
  • hearsay,
  • new,
  • measurement,
  • high-powered,
  • giving,
  • program,
  • rendition,
  • auricular confession,
  • rotund,
  • evidential,
  • notification,
  • flagellation,
  • lucid,
  • prediction,
  • graphically,
  • swear,
  • relative,
  • maintain,
  • sackcloth and ashes,
  • stirring,
  • conclusive,
  • auspices,
  • notable,
  • relevant,
  • powerfully,
  • puissant,
  • ascendant,
  • biting,
  • heart-rending,
  • strikingly,
  • forceful,
  • recital,
  • retailing,
  • informative,
  • crucial,
  • satisfying,
  • pagination,
  • thorough,
  • cliff-hanging,
  • gory,
  • revealing,
  • tattle,
  • capable,
  • processional,
  • riveting,
  • eloquent,
  • touching,
  • extraordinary,
  • repetition,
  • trenchant,
  • potently,
  • glowing,
  • prominent,
  • horoscope,
  • personable,
  • accurate,
  • potent,
  • spirited,
  • emphasize,
  • firsthand,
  • plead,
  • tanti,
  • seminal,
  • precedent-setting,
  • productive,
  • emotional,
  • special,
  • unforgettable,
  • numbering,
  • pithy,
  • ravishing,
  • deep,
  • assert,
  • crystal clear,
  • energetic,
  • affecting,
  • stimulative,
  • probative,
  • maceration,
  • prophecy,
  • Premonstration,
  • decisive,
  • vividly,
  • outstanding,
  • in power,
  • grave,
  • avow,
  • contend,
  • pregnant,
  • inventorying,
  • announcement,
  • penance,
  • efficacious,
  • coition,
  • advisement,
  • atonement,
  • cutting,
  • premonition,
  • pointed,
  • Armipotent,
  • noticeable,
  • certain,
  • electrical,
  • major,
  • striking,
  • jarring,
  • sinewy,
  • momentous,
  • realistic,
  • distinct,
  • Ariolation,
  • actual,
  • graphical,
  • prognostication,
  • inspirational,
  • tale,
  • determinative,
  • apprisal,
  • thrilling,
  • instrumental,
  • authentic,
  • functional,
  • Attestative,
  • rehearsal,
  • chief,
  • cogent,
  • noteworthy,
  • serious,
  • suggestive,
  • Augural,
  • suspenseful,
  • significantly,
  • carnal knowledge,
  • Overcoming,
  • operative,
  • benchmark,
  • electric,
  • presentment,
  • original,
  • High-wrought,
  • census,
  • influential,
  • news,
  • talking,
  • descriptive,
  • particular,
  • significant,
  • declare,
  • rousing,
  • consequential,
  • announce,
  • vocalizing,
  • Rememberable,
  • precise,
  • representation,
  • Suasive,
  • enchanting,
  • trenchantly,
  • narrate,
  • winning,
  • landmark,
  • Sinewed,
  • expressive,
  • Auguration,
  • tattling,
  • useful,
  • provocative,
  • confess,
  • penetrating,
  • picturesque,
  • noble,
  • vitriolic,
  • warning,
  • according to,
  • meaningful,
  • conspicuous,
  • connection,
  • Predominating,
  • implicit,
  • photographic,
  • tantalizing,
  • final,
  • Impartment,
  • dramatic,
  • heavy,
  • transfiguration,
  • creative,
  • breathtaking,
  • acid,
  • foliation,
  • emphatically,
  • version,
  • transference,
  • unsettling,
  • efficient,
  • attention,
  • damning,
  • exhilarating,
  • forcible,
  • absorbing,
  • considerable,
  • aspersion,
  • supreme,
  • suspensive,
  • establish,
  • remarkable,
  • unprecedented,
  • formidable,
  • substantial,
  • counting,
  • pink slip,
  • paralinguistic,
  • necromancy,
  • moving,
  • quantization,
  • memorable,
  • soul-subduing,
  • soul-stirring,
  • avouch,
  • Aboding,
  • oppressive,
  • downright,
  • virulent,
  • nativity,
  • guiding,
  • well-founded,
  • charming,
  • celebrated,
  • illocutionary,
  • keen,
  • imparting,
  • symptomatic,
  • Thurification,
  • incense,
  • lofty,
  • disclosure,
  • information,
  • making known,
  • gutsy,
  • apt,
  • leading,
  • foreboding,
  • manifest,
  • divination,
  • irresistible,
  • grievous,
  • evocatively,
  • awe-inspiring,
  • sensational,
  • big,
  • convincing,
  • warm,
  • Ex parte,
  • mind-blowing,
  • Viaticum,
  • high pressure,
  • depiction,
  • unmistakable,
  • soothsaying,
  • convince,
  • satirical,
  • Cogently,
  • Mantology,
  • Prepotent,
  • unbearable,
  • informatory,
  • absolute,
  • logical,
  • coitus,
  • valid,
  • articulation,
  • sure,
  • driving,
  • loaded,
  • note,
  • at first hand,
  • pathetic,
  • unendurable,
  • inspiring,
  • representational,
  • emphatic,
  • narration,
  • ruling,
  • dominant,
  • formative,
  • unfolding,
  • heart-stirring,
  • sarcastic,
  • Bodement,
  • expressively,
  • based on,
  • identify,
  • overwhelming,
  • enumeration,
  • agitating,
  • fundamental,
  • dynamic,
  • forecast,
  • impressively,
  • documented,
  • great,
  • communication,
  • undoubting,
  • Tallying,
  • Distracting,
  • tellingly,
  • evidentiary,
  • slashing,
  • sharing,
  • prestigious,
  • well-defined,
  • authorize.

Antonyms for Telling:

• adj.

  • effective, significant
    ineffective, incomplete, weak, unimportant, secondary, impotent, insignificant.
  • Other antonyms:
    invalid, feeble, unsound, immaterial, uncompelling, unfounded, unpersuasive, unimportant, inconclusive, inconsequential, unconvincing, groundless, uneffective, insignificant, ineffectual, shaky, irrelevant, weak, dissuasive, indecisive.