promising

promising

adjective

: likely to succeed or to be good : full of promise

Full Definition of PROMISING

:  full of promise :  likely to succeed or to yield good results <a promising new medicine>

— prom·is·ing·ly \-siŋ-lē\ adverb

Examples of PROMISING

1. The neighborhood didn't look very promising.
2. <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

Related Words

cheering, comforting, reassuring, soothing; assured, confident, decisive, doubtless, positive, sure, unhesitating; beamish, bullish, eupeptic; favorable, good

Near Antonyms

cheerless, comfortless; doubtful, dubious, uncertain; bearish, grim, negative, unfavorable; funereal, glum, gray (also grey), miserable, wretched