promising

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.