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Revealing vs Suggestive - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between revealing and suggestive

is that revealing is of clothing: allowing more than is usual to be seen while suggestive is tending to suggest or imply.

As a verb revealing

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun revealing

is something revealed; a revelation.

revealing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of clothing: allowing more than is usual to be seen.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something revealed; a revelation.
  • * 1836 , William Tait, ?Mrs. Christian Isobel Johnstone, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 3, page 113)
    • In these letters, and the remembered conversations, we have fuller revealings of the inner man, greater depth of discovery into that vast and labyrinthine mind

    suggestive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tending to suggest or imply.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=6, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.}}
  • Suggesting romance, sex, etc.