promising | Definition of promising

Synonyms and Antonyms of promising

1 having qualities which inspire hope

a promising writer who just may write the great American novel someday

Synonyms of promising

auspicious, bright, encouraging, fair, golden, heartening, hopeful, likely, optimistic, propitious, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, upbeat

Words Related to promising

cheering, comforting, reassuring, soothing

assured, confident, decisive, doubtless, positive, sure, unhesitating

beamish, bullish, eupeptic

favorable, good

Near Antonyms of promising

cheerless, comfortless

doubtful, dubious, uncertain

bearish, grim, negative, unfavorable

funereal, glum, gray (also grey), miserable, wretched

Antonyms of promising

bleak, dark, depressing, desperate, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, downbeat, dreary, gloomy, hopeless, inauspicious, pessimistic, unencouraging, unlikely, unpromising, unpropitious

2 pointing toward a happy outcome

all the signs for the new business are promising

Synonyms of promising

auspicious, bright, encouraging, favorable, golden, heartening, hopeful, propitious

Words Related to promising

fortunate, fortuitous, happy, lucky, providential

advantageous, beneficial, profitable, prosperous, salutary

Near Antonyms of promising

unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky

calamitous, catastrophic, disastrous, fatal, ruinous

baleful, dark, dire, direful, doomy, foreboding, gloomy, ill, ill-boding, menacing, minatory, ominous, portentous, sinister, threatening

Antonyms of promising

dim, discouraging, disheartening, futureless, hopeless, inauspicious, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitious