promising

Speech parts

1. promising - Noun

2. promising - Adjective

3. promising - Verb

5. promising - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Promise

Making a promise or promises; affording hope or assurance; as, promising person; a promising day.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

bright hopeful prometheus golden right good likely potential lucky seasonable positive coming appropriate suitable fair

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Antonyms

poor bad threatened ill unlikely fatal

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Phrases with the word

promising future promising mission promising to

Examples

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. Gertrude Stein

You should make great things, not promising great things. Pythagoras

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. Cyril Connolly

Promising is not giving, but serves to content fools. Portuguese Proverb

Where people are promising much to you, bring a small bag. Serbo Croatian Proverb

Between promising and giving a man should marry his daughter. French Proverb

Close letter words and terms

promiselessness promiser promises, promises promising future promising mission promising to