Definition for Promising:

• Affording just grounds for expectation of good; giving tokens of future good.

Synonyms for Promising:

• adj.

  •Panglossian (adjective)
  • looking bright side,
  • looking through rose colored glasses,
  • looking through rosecolored glasses,
  • looking the bright side.
  •all (adjective)
  • promising.
  •auspicious (adjective)
  • welltimed.
  •bright (adjective)
  • encouraging.
  •budding (adjective)
  • more nascent,
  • more fledgling,
  • most opening,
  • most germinating,
  • more opening,
  • more pullulating,
  • most pullulating,
  • most burgeoning,
  • most fledgling,
  • most vegetating,
  • more vegetating,
  • more sprouting,
  • more burgeoning,
  • more germinating,
  • be ginning,
  • most pubescent,
  • growing,
  • most blossoming,
  • be-ginning,
  • more blossoming,
  • most sprouting,
  • more pubescent,
  • most germinal,
  • most beginning,
  • more beginning,
  • more germinal,
  • most nascent,
  • incipient.
  •cheerful (adjective)
  • upbeat.
  •encouraging (adjective)
  • more supportive.
  •favorable (adjective)
  • more reassuring,
  • re-assuring,
  • full promise,
  • most reassuring,
  • re assuring,
  • more pleasureful,
  • most toward,
  • most pleasureful,
  • full of promise,
  • more convenient,
  • more toward.
  •fortunate (adjective)
  • get a break,
  • more fortunate,
  • in luck,
  • in the gravy,
  • sunny side,
  • born with a silver spoon.
  •golden (adjective)
  • de lightful,
  • re-splendent,
  • de-lightful.
  •happy (adjective)
  • be-fitting,
  • enviable.
  •hopeful (adjective)
  • gifted,
  • able,
  • reassuring,
  • rising,
  • talented,
  • bright.
  •possible (adjective)
  • realizable,
  • snapper,
  • cincher,
  • can do,
  • doable,
  • within reach,
  • no sweat,
  • hypothetical.
  •promising (adjective)
  • utopian,
  • hopeful.
  •propitious (adjective)
  • more dexter,
  • most dexter,
  • most favoring,
  • more favoring.
  •rose-colored (adjective)
  • rosecolored,
  • rose colored.
  •timely (adjective)
  • more towardly,
  • most timeous,
  • in the nick time,
  • up to date,
  • in nick time,
  • nower,
  • nowest,
  • in nick of time,
  • most towardly,
  • more timeous.
  •up-and-coming (adjective)
  • go getter,
  • coming on strong,
  • get up and go,
  • High-reaching.
  •upbeat (adjective)
  • up beat,
  • up-beat.
  •would-be (adjective)
  • wannabe,
  • more wannabe,
  • wouldbe,
  • most wannabe,
  • would be.

• n.

  •
  • sure,
  • healthy.
  •
  • up-and-coming,
  • increase.
  •
  • help.

• v.

  •affirming (verb)
  • Averring,
  • Corroborating,
  • asserting,
  • Warranting,
  • verifying,
  • validating,
  • Declaring,
  • setting down,
  • Attesting,
  • Admitting,
  • Claiming,
  • Maintaining,
  • Expressing,
  • Acknowledging,
  • Adjuring,
  • Ratifying,
  • Testifying,
  • Propounding,
  • Stating,
  • Certifying,
  • Sustaining,
  • Proclaiming,
  • Avouching,
  • professing,
  • assuring,
  • Submitting,
  • supporting,
  • contending,
  • Pronouncing.
  •agreeing (verb)
  • consenting,
  • contracting,
  • Acquiescing,
  • empathizing,
  • welcoming,
  • Acceding,
  • accepting,
  • blessing,
  • agreeing,
  • Cooperating,
  • concurring,
  • Capitulating,
  • assenting,
  • Endorsing,
  • Stipulating,
  • sanctioning,
  • Affirming,
  • conforming,
  • approving,
  • Pledging.
  •guaranteeing (verb)
  • Securing,
  • Vouching,
  • Countersigning,
  • safeguarding,
  • Insuring,
  • Guaranteeing,
  • ensuring,
  • bonding.
  •promising (verb)
  • Vowing,
  • swearing.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • bombproof,
  • resurgent,
  • sure-fire,
  • feasible.
  •
  • commanding,
  • coming.
  •
  • positively.
  •
  • strong.

Paraphrases for Promising:

• Forward Entailment

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Pledging.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    promised, bright, brighter, prospective, propitious, interesting, gratifying, forward-looking, inspiring, high-potential, upbeat, positive, rewarding, challenging, rosy, talented, favourable, attractive, reassuring, encouraged, wonderful, best, better, good, favorable, supportive, load-bearing, stimulating, viable, potential.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    potential.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    pressing, offering, Guaranteeing, lnteresting, announcement, supporting, Vowing, Prosecuting, Stipulating, Committing, Promoting, emphasizing, Preparing, Anticipating, urging, Securing, encouraging, Embodying, Furthering, Hiring, Favouring, Envisaging, ensuring, fostering, investing, threatening, pushing, Commencing, triggering, Pertaining, Advocating, Enrolling, agreeing, incurring, Containing, Announcing, announces, inviting, Involving, bearing, enabling, saying, resulting, Boosting, Harboring, looking, return, returning, living, calling, Allowing, Initiating, ec, paying, giving, Carrying, back, affecting, bringing, going, launching, heartening, interesting, gratifying, reassuring, stimulating.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    encouraging, up-and-coming, auspicious, heartening, optimistic.

Antonyms for Promising:

• adj.

  • hopeful
    dull, unintelligent, unhappy, unpromising, hopeless.
  • Other antonyms:
    dreary, ruinous, bleak, negative, dim, desperate, gloomy, wretched, doubtful, dismal, futureless, gray, glum, discouraging, disheartening, grim, miserable, uncertain, unencouraging, funereal, unpropitious, sinister, dubious, dark, cheerless, unfavorable, depressing, comfortless, threatening.

Promising Sentence Examples:

• Promising to return at once, the storekeeper set out on his errand, shaking his head gravely.

• For if you did not feel like promising it, why, I should have to begin over again with my left hand.