Synonyms of promising

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promising 1 of 2

adjective

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1

as in bright

having qualities which inspire hope

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bright
• optimistic
• hopeful
• encouraging
• likely
• propitious
• rosy
• auspicious
• upbeat
• golden
• heartening
• fair
• reassuring
• positive
• favorable
• good
• roseate
• confident
• assured
• comforting
• doubtless
• cheering
• sure
• soothing
• rose-colored
• decisive
• unhesitating
• bullish
• beamish
• eupeptic

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unlikely
• desperate
• discouraging
• unpromising
• dark
• hopeless
• bleak
• dismal
• gloomy
• pessimistic
• inauspicious
• depressing
• dreary
• doubtful
• uncertain
• disheartening
• dubious
• cheerless
• unpropitious
• negative
• unfavorable
• unencouraging
• grim
• downbeat
• miserable
• comfortless
• gray
• grey
• wretched
• bearish
• glum
• funereal

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• unlikely
• desperate
• discouraging
• unpromising
• dark
• hopeless
• bleak
• dismal
• gloomy
• pessimistic
• inauspicious
• depressing
• dreary
• doubtful
• uncertain
• disheartening
• dubious
• cheerless
• unpropitious
• negative
• unfavorable
• unencouraging
• grim
• downbeat
• miserable
• comfortless
• gray
• grey
• wretched
• bearish
• glum
• funereal

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2

as in encouraging

pointing toward a happy outcome

all the signs for the new business are promising

Synonyms & Similar Words

• encouraging
• favorable
• hopeful
• bright
• happy
• propitious
• golden
• lucky
• beneficial
• auspicious
• heartening
• profitable
• advantageous
• fortunate
• prosperous
• fortuitous
• salutary
• providential

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unpromising
• discouraging
• unfavorable
• hopeless
• inauspicious
• dim
• unpropitious
• unfortunate
• disheartening
• unhappy
• disastrous
• unlucky
• ruinous
• catastrophic
• fatal
• threatening
• calamitous
• ominous
• futureless
• dark
• sinister
• menacing
• gloomy
• dire
• portentous
• ill
• direful
• baleful
• foreboding
• minatory
• ill-boding
• doomy

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• unpromising
• discouraging
• unfavorable
• hopeless
• inauspicious
• dim
• unpropitious
• unfortunate
• disheartening
• unhappy
• disastrous
• unlucky
• ruinous
• catastrophic
• fatal
• threatening
• calamitous
• ominous
• futureless
• dark
• sinister
• menacing
• gloomy
• dire
• portentous
• ill
• direful
• baleful
• foreboding
• minatory
• ill-boding
• doomy

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promising

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verb

present participle of promise

1

as in vowing

to make a solemn declaration of intent

they promised to keep in touch with us after they moved away

Synonyms & Similar Words

• vowing
• pledging
• swearing
• insisting
• agreeing
• ensuring
• guaranteeing
• covenanting
• undertaking
• declaring
• consenting
• giving one's word
• assenting
• betrothing
• affirming
• acceding
• engaging
• affiancing
• contracting
• asserting
• trothing
• plighting
• averring
• avowing
• warranting
• avouching

2

as in predicting

to show signs of a favorable or successful outcome

given the cast, the new sitcom promises to be an excellent show

Synonyms & Similar Words

• predicting
• warning
• hinting
• indicating
• suggesting
• boding
• anticipating
• auguring
• foreboding
• bidding fair
• forecasting
• forboding
• presaging
• foreseeing
• forewarning
• foretelling
• prognosticating
• portending
• implying
• intimating
• signifying
• prophesying
• foreshadowing
• prefiguring
• betokening
• divining
• alluding
• presignifying
• foreknowing
• harbingering
• connoting
• insinuating