promising
promising
Definition
prom·is·ing (präm′is iŋ)
adjective
showing promise of success, excellence, etc.
prom′·is·ingly adverb
promising
Synonyms
promising
Usage Examples
Modifying Another Word
- exceptionally: Stip is the most unexplored area in this respect, although the announcements of its potentials are exceptionally promising.
- extremely: With the team going from strength to strength, the season ahead looks extremely promising!
- very: Let's look at the evidence: Strauss - very promising, quality opener, can he play decent spin?
- highly: The result so far is a valuable and highly promising contribution to the great army of evangelical lay workers.
- potentially: Although early studies indicate a potentially promising role for vitamin E.. .
- particularly: One particularly promising site was found on farm land to the East of Lydney.
Preposition: for
- future: It is certainly very promising for the future of the sport.
Infinitive complement
- return: Having had a full and exciting day the protests wrapped up at 4.30pm with all promising to return again.
Modifies a noun
- youngster: Have you any promising youngsters breaking into the team?
- newcomer: Among many well-known local poets, there were a couple of promising newcomers.
- debut: Daniel Todd came second in the Men's under 65kg junior grade kumite event making a promising debut.
- avenue: The general problem seems hard although there are some promising avenues for investigation.
- prospect: Tom is undoubtedly one of the Norths most promising prospects.
- money-maker: To the media, it is a promising money-maker.
Used with adjective complement
- look: Looks very promising to me over the coming months.
- appear: Their handling of the Jean Charles de Menezes case does not appear promising.
- seem: And to think he once seemed so promising... Reviewed by Andy Murray Reader comments about Kill Bill Vol.
- sound: I thought to myself, this sounds promising, lets go.
- prove: If these tests prove promising, then the next stage is to test the new medicine in animals.
- keep: The plumber has not shown up and keeps promising to come back but never does.
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