Definition of promising
:full of promise :likely to succeed or to yield good results
- a promising new medicine
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Examples of promising in a Sentence
The neighborhood didn't look very promising.
a promising writer who just may write the great American novel someday
Recent Examples of promising from the Web
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Rather, radical groups use religion and ideologies to legitimize grievances, placing themselves as agents of change and promising empowerment and a sense of purpose.
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In addition to Macdonald, the filmmaker has made a slew of promising discoveries here, including Dhananjay and Mamoudou Athie, who plays an offbeat musician Patti and Jheri meet at an open-mic night.
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The other — a voter registration report — is more promising for the five-term Republican.
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But veteran tight end Jason Witten has already seen promising signs that Prescott is going to take his game to another level.
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The first sight of my future boyfriend was promising: A towering tree trunk of a man wearing an apron over an Oxford shirt stood in the kitchen of a beach house rented for my cousin’s wedding.
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Even more promising, says Corlett, is the prospect that studies like this one will help clinicians predict who is likely to develop schizophrenia, allowing them to seek early treatment.
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At a time when skin-cancer rates in the U.S. have reached record numbers — including melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer — here’s some promising news.
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Fumagalli, who is left-handed, also was a promising pitcher early in high school.
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First Known Use of promising
1594
promising Synonyms
Synonyms
auspicious, bright, encouraging, fair, golden, heartening, likely, optimistic, hopeful, propitious, roseate, rose-colored, rosy, upbeatAntonyms
bleak, dark, depressing, desperate, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, downbeat, dreary, gloomy, hopeless, inauspicious, pessimistic, unencouraging, unlikely, unpromising, unpropitiousRelated Words
cheering, comforting, reassuring, soothing; assured, confident, decisive, doubtless, positive, sure, unhesitating; beamish, bullish, eupeptic; favorable, goodNear Antonyms
cheerless, comfortless; doubtful, dubious, uncertain; bearish, grim, negative, unfavorable; funereal, glum, gray (also grey), miserable, wretchedPROMISING Defined for English Language Learners
promising
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Definition of promising for English Language Learners
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: likely to succeed or to be good : full of promise
PROMISING Defined for Kids
promising
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prom·is·ing
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Definition of promising for Students
:likely to turn out well or be good
- a promising start
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