Promising Synonyms and Antonyms

prŏmĭ-sĭng
Showing great promise
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. coming
  2. up-and-coming
Inspiring confidence or hope
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. hopeful
  2. encouraging
  3. likely
  4. bright
  5. cheering
  6. apt
  7. assuring
  8. budding
  9. heartening
  10. happy
  11. rising
  12. rosy
  13. talented
  14. up-and-coming
Antonyms:
  1. inauspicious
  2. unfavorable
  3. unpromising
  4. hopeless
To appear promising
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. assuring
  2. insuring
  3. ensuring
To guarantee by a solemn promise
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. vowing
  2. swearing
  3. plighting
  4. pledging
  5. covenanting

Words Related to Promising

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. increase
  2. help
  3. successful
  4. sucessful
  5. succesful

Promising Sentence Examples

  • I sure hope you're going to deliver what you've been promising all evening.

  • Ed had suffered needlessly for hours because she had done something careless – after promising she wouldn't.

  • She'd located two promising missing children cases from the past forty-eight hours.

  • I'm not promising any miracles.  We got a lot to do to prepare the world for Hazel.

  • At Rhandea he laid down his diadem at the foot of the emperor's statue, promising not to resume it until he received it from the hand of Nero himself in Rome.

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