promising
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adjectiveDefinition of PROMISING
: full of promise : likely to succeed or to yield good results <a promising new medicine>
— prom·is·ing·ly \-siŋ-lē\ adverb
See Examples of PROMISING
- The neighborhood didn't look very promising.
- <a promising writer who just may write the great American novel someday>
First Known Use of PROMISING
1597
Related to PROMISING
- Synonyms
- auspicious, bright, encouraging, fair, golden, heartening, likely, optimistic, hopeful, propitious, roseate, rose-colored, rosy, upbeat
- Antonyms
- bleak, dark, depressing, desperate, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, downbeat, dreary, gloomy, hopeless, inauspicious, pessimistic, unencouraging, unlikely, unpromising, unpropitious
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