TELL-ALL Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

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Definition of tell-all

as in intimate

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Noun

The rift widened in the wake of the couple’s explosive sit-down with Oprah Winfrey, their Netflix docuseries and Harry’s tell-all memoir. — Max Foster, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026 The couple's decision to move back to Britain comes after a high-profile split and tell-all memoir. — Aoife Walsh, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2026 While prosecutors allege Davis’ tell-all memoir and interviews clearly implicate him, the defense insists Davis’ words were pure showmanship. — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 17 Aug. 2026 As far as solo shows fashioned like family memoir go, this tell-all gives off loving warmth but could use just a bit more caffeine. — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 10 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tell-all

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tell-all

Adjective

The severing of an intimate relationship means giving up a vision of life together.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
Now, more than fifty years later, his son David Greaves shares the intimate footage of this thrilling conversation.

— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of intimate

Noun

Julia Loktev’s continuing chronicle of a group of independent Russian journalists working for the now-rogue news channel TV Rain closes an important emotional loop with its second part, which is even longer than the five-plus-hour first part.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 Sep. 2026
The film picks up in 1940 after France’s defeat by the Nazis and chronicles de Gaulle’s efforts to show the Allies that France was still worth fighting for.

— Kate McKenna, semafor.com, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of chronicle

Adjective

Eve’s Hollywood, gossipy and full of anecdote captures a more recent version of the conversations Arzner used to overhear at her father’s Hollywood restaurant.

— Anne E. Fernald, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2026
There’s the pleasant background noise of gossipy girls’ dinners and third dates.

— Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 2 July 2026

Definition of gossipy

Noun

Fenerbahce got in on the act by recruiting Nathan Ake from Manchester City and Greenwood from Marseille, bluntly unconcerned by the latter’s past.

— Nick Miller, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
The constantly changing present moment is no more than a dividing line between past and future and so does not have a tangible existence of its own.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of past

Adjective

That calculation can reveal a sizable amount of informal self-insurance that never received the same planning, funding or governance as other financial obligations.

— Randy Sadler, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Around 400 former students and leading industry professionals made the trek from Paris for a day of conferences and informal gatherings.

— Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of informal

Noun

That's the title of European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde's new autobiography.

— Rebecca Blumenstein, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2026
The primary driver of the narrative is an unnamed writer who has approached a famous actor — the M of the title — with the proposition of ghosting her autobiography.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of autobiography

Noun

Djeneba N'Diaye also had 19 points for Mali, which is now 2-10 in its World Cup history.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2026
The Boot Bowl rivalry, which began in 2012, doesn’t have the longest history, but for fans in Burleson, few events bring the town together quite like it.

— Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of history

Noun

First Freud’s patient in the 1920s, in 1930 Bullitt also became his collaborator, co-writing a dubious psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson.

— Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 1 Sep. 2022
And so, duly catering to the market, the book is presented as a psychobiography of the author’s uncle, whose military academy class photo adorns the cover.

— Anne Diebel, The New York Review of Books, 8 Sep. 2020

Definition of psychobiography

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