promisingly

adverb

as in favorably

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Recent Examples of promisingly The film opens very promisingly though with a much more up to date takeoff on this year’s Best Picture Oscar winner, One Battle After Another in the form of Teyana Taylor sitting at a bar playing her sassy self, shouting Viva Le Revolution! — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 4 June 2026 Gray threw six innings on 78 pitches, allowed one run with two hits and one walk, and most promisingly struck out a season-high six batters. — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 14 May 2026 To be fair, things start promisingly enough, instantly raising the pulses with a dramatic seabound scene where Claflin’s dashing sailor Edmond Dantès — at the behest of his dying captain — must navigate their ship through a violent storm. — Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 19 Mar. 2026 The 22-year-old, who had his first international call-up last year, has had a mixed spell in Yorkshire, having started promisingly before a three-game ban after being sent off for a dangerous challenge in a 3-1 defeat by Barnsley at the end of August. — Elias Burke, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026 The match started out promisingly for Capistrano Valley Christian (14-22-1) when McKenzie Meserve opened the first set serving three consecutive aces. — Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 23 Nov. 2025 Peter Hedges’s drama about a young recovering addict (Lucas Hedges) coming back unannounced to his family starts off promisingly, with Roberts’s supportive but wary character trying to manage her complicated feelings about her son’s return. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025 More promisingly, grocery inflation looks to have peaked as well, with August’s release seeing the first deceleration since January. — John Choong, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025 The year didn't start promisingly. — Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for promisingly
  1. favorably
  2. auspiciously
  3. perfectly
  4. properly
  5. rightly
Adverb
  • Still, a Pew Research Center survey of citizens in 13 member states released this month found that two-thirds of European respondents view NATO favorably.
    — Anna Mulrine Grobe, Christian Science Monitor, 8 July 2026
  • Only 42% of Democrats viewed capitalism favorably, while 66% had a positive view of socialism.
    — Steven Sloan, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
Definition of favorably
Adverb
  • His stint began auspiciously with an encounter with the late owner George Steinbrenner in a hotel elevator in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
    — Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 4 May 2026
  • Carlson’s started auspiciously.
    — Matt Kawahara, Houston Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2026
Definition of auspiciously
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  • The crafty 10th-seeded Czech, whose slices and volleys are perfectly suited to Wimbledon’s low-bouncing surface, carries a medicine cabinet’s worth of remedies to prove that the All England Club’s famous lawns can be a real irritant.
    — Douglas Robson, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
  • Obama perfectly captured the moral realism that was so prevalent among Cold War liberals.
    — David Brooks, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
Definition of perfectly
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  • Research shows that almost two-thirds (64%) of patients using sharps at home have never been taught how to dispose of them properly.
    — Irina Butler, Boston Herald, 10 July 2026
  • The Smithville native suffered a fracture in May that, if not handled properly, could have changed his life forever.
    — Latif Love July 9, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2026
Definition of properly
Adverb
  • The physician, rightly, focused on care and then documented what happened afterward.
    — Mike Valli, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • When it was overturned, however, the United States rightly or wrongly became the evil empire to the rest of world soccer.
    — Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2026
Definition of rightly

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“Promisingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/promisingly. Accessed 15 Jul. 2026.

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