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.
  •likely (adjective)
  • more oddson,
  • dis posed,
  • more odds-on,
  • most verisimilar,
  • most odds-on,
  • more believeable,
  • most oddson,
  • most conjecturable,
  • more inferable,
  • imaginable,
  • most believeable,
  • in habit of,
  • pre-disposed,
  • oddson,
  • on verge of,
  • most assuring,
  • most supposable,
  • more supposable,
  • more assuring,
  • most inferable,
  • most odds on,
  • more conjecturable,
  • pre disposed,
  • more odds on,
  • dis-posed,
  • pro-nest,
  • more verisimilar.
  •lucky (adjective)
  • in groove,
  • more serendipitous,
  • hit big,
  • getting break,
  • most serendipitous,
  • on streak,
  • on a streak,
  • everything going,
  • striking it rich,
  • coming roses,
  • striking rich,
  • in to something.
  •optimistic (adjective)
  • keeping faith,
  • ray of sunshine,
  • ray sunshine,
  • on top world.
  •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.
  •Other relevant words:
  • laudatory,
  • controlling,
  • Presaging,
  • Checking,
  • forestalling,
  • smart,
  • shouting,
  • bargaining,
  • seemly,
  • benign,
  • lustrous,
  • phoning,
  • Plighting,
  • enlivening,
  • squalling,
  • preferable,
  • calling,
  • prosperous,
  • appropriate,
  • Prospecting,
  • right,
  • sunshiny,
  • Betokening,
  • positive,
  • beneficial,
  • foreseeable,
  • probable,
  • promissory,
  • zealous,
  • Consecrating,
  • Expecting,
  • helpful,
  • enthusiastic,
  • exhilarating,
  • Avowing,
  • sunny,
  • Predicting,
  • yelling,
  • foreboding,
  • boding,
  • useful,
  • Foreknowing,
  • predictable,
  • naming,
  • shiny,
  • suitable,
  • favourable,
  • wording,
  • well-disposed,
  • brilliant,
  • on the way up,
  • Hoping,
  • accommodating,
  • Panglossian,
  • hollering,
  • inspiriting,
  • promised,
  • promise,
  • supportive,
  • screaming,
  • strategic,
  • affirmative,
  • advantageous,
  • visiting,
  • presumptive,
  • Betrothing,
  • Addressing,
  • Covenanting,
  • Portending,
  • favoring,
  • Anticipating,
  • sympathetic,
  • Auguring,
  • acceptable,
  • fitting,
  • accommodative,
  • facilitative,
  • Favoured,
  • ardent,
  • telephoning,
  • convenient,
  • Committing,
  • crying,
  • votive,
  • apposite,
  • Commendatory,
  • benignant,
  • burnished,
  • Prefiguring,
  • apt,
  • bullish,
  • fair,
  • countering,
  • Heralding,
  • eager,
  • Announcing,
  • credible,
  • qualified,
  • cheerful,
  • vivid,
  • Prognosticating,
  • opportune,
  • meet,
  • helping,
  • potential,
  • proper,
  • presumable,
  • inspiring,
  • foreshadowing,
  • confident,
  • splendid,
  • ordering,
  • undimmed,
  • favourite,
  • engaging,
  • Ascertaining,
  • liable,
  • preferred,
  • good,
  • Paroling,
  • facultative.

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.