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tellingadjective having the power to persuadepresented us with telling evidence that convinced us he was right cogent, compelling, conclusive, convincing, decisive, effective, forceful, persuasive, satisfying, strong authoritative, definitivesound, valid, well-foundedimportant, significant, weightymaterial, pertinent, relevant inconclusive, indecisive, ineffective, uncompelling, unconvincing, unpersuasive groundless, invalid, shaky, unfounded, unsoundinconsequential, insignificant, unimportantimmaterial, irrelevantfeeble, weak to give an oral or written account of in some detailthey told the story of how they had met charting, chronicling, describing, narrating, reciting, recounting, rehearsing, relating, reporting delivering, giving, reeling off, stating, uttering, voicingdetailing, enumerating, itemizing, particularizingbaring, disclosing, divulging, exposing, letting on (about), revealingdelineating, depicting, expressing, rendering, sketching setting forth to express (a thought or emotion) in wordsjust tell us what is in your heart articulating, bringing out, enunciating, passing, saying, speaking, stating, talking, uttering, verbalizing, vocalizing airing, discussing, giving, looking, sharing, sounding, ventilating, venting, voicingblabbering, blurting, bolting, getting off, shootingadvertising, announcing, blazing, broadcasting, declaring, posting, proclaiming, promulgating, publicizing, publishingaffirming, alleging, asserting, averring, avouching, avowingbreathing, chirping, drawling, gasping, lipping, mouthing, murmuring, purring, shouting, spluttering, spouting, whisperingclothing, couching, formulating, formulizing, phrasing, putting, wordingcommenting, piping up (with), remarkingripping (out), snarling putting into words stifling, suppressing to find the sum of (a collection of things) by noting each one as it is being addedwho can tell the number of grains of sand in the world? counting, enumerating, numbering adding (up), tallying, totaling(or totalling)calculating, computing, reckoning, tabling, tabulatingchecking, marking, ticking (off)recounting to give information totell me, when did you begin playing the violin? acquainting, advising, apprising, briefing, catching up, clearing, clueing (in)(or cluing (in)), enlightening, familiarizing, filling in, hipping, informing, instructing, versing, wising (up) advertising, alerting, notifyingannouncing (to), disclosing (to)assuring, certifying, convincing, reassuring, warrantingeducating, lecturing, schooling, teaching, tutoringdisabusing, disenchanting, disillusioning, undeceiving keeping (someone) posted, letting someone know misinforming, misleading to issue orders to (someone) by right of authoritytold us to sit still and wait adjuring, bidding, bossing (around), charging, commanding, directing, enjoining, instructing, ordering asking, petitioning, requestingbegging, beseeching, entreatingadvising, counseling(or counselling), warningappointing, assigning, authorizing, commissioningoverseeing, superintending, supervisingconducting, controlling, leading, managingcoercing, compelling, constraining, forcing, obliging, requiring minding, obeying complying (with), following, keeping, observing to make known (as information previously kept secret)I won't tell your secret to anyone baring, disclosing, discovering, divulging, exposing, letting on (about), revealing, spilling, unbosoming, uncloaking, uncovering, unmasking, unveiling confiding, sharingdebunking, showing upunclothing, undrapingadvertising, announcing, blazing, bringing out, broadcasting, declaring, placarding, posting, proclaiming, promulgating, publicizing, publishing, soundingbetraying, blabbing, giving away, leakinginforming, squealing, talkingcommunicating, imparting, relatingacknowledging, admitting, avowing, conceding, confessing, owningdisinterring, raking up, smoking out, unearthing bringing to light, going public (with), letting the cat out of the bag (about), spilling the beans (about) cloaking, concealing, covering (up), enshrouding, hiding, masking, shrouding, veiling camouflaging, disguisinggilding, glossing (over), varnishing, whitewashingbeclouding, bedimming, befogging, clouding, darkening, eclipsing, obscuring, overcasting, overshadowing, shading adj.valid, sound, cogent, convincing, telling mean having such force as to compel serious attention and usually acceptance.valid implies being supported by objective truth or generally accepted authority.a valid reason for being absent a valid marriage sound implies a basis of flawless reasoning or of solid grounds.a sound proposal for reviving the economy cogent may stress either weight of sound argument and evidence or lucidity of presentation.the prosecutor's cogent summation won over the jury convincing suggests a power to overcome doubt, opposition, or reluctance to accept.a convincing argument for welfare reform telling stresses an immediate and crucial effect striking at the heart of a matter.a telling example of bureaucratic waste in 1819 |