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promising

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of promising

1 having qualities which inspire hope

  • a promising writer who just may write the great American novel someday
Synonyms of promising

auspicious, bright, encouraging, fair, golden, heartening, hopeful, likely, optimistic, propitious, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, upbeat
Words Related to promising

cheering, comforting, reassuring, soothing

assured, confident, decisive, doubtless, positive, sure, unhesitating

beamish, bullish, eupeptic

favorable, good
Near Antonyms of promising

cheerless, comfortless

doubtful, dubious, uncertain

bearish, grim, negative, unfavorable

funereal, glum, gray (also grey), miserable, wretched
Antonyms of promising

bleak, dark, depressing, desperate, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, downbeat, dreary, gloomy, hopeless, inauspicious, pessimistic, unencouraging, unlikely, unpromising, unpropitious

2 pointing toward a happy outcome

  • all the signs for the new business are promising
Synonyms of promising

auspicious, bright, encouraging, favorable, golden, heartening, hopeful, propitious
Words Related to promising

fortunate, fortuitous, happy, lucky, providential

advantageous, beneficial, profitable, prosperous, salutary
Near Antonyms of promising

unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky

calamitous, catastrophic, disastrous, fatal, ruinous

baleful, dark, dire, direful, doomy, foreboding, gloomy, ill, ill-boding, menacing, minatory, ominous, portentous, sinister, threatening
Antonyms of promising

dim, discouraging, disheartening, futureless, hopeless, inauspicious, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitious

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