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promising [ˈprɒmɪsɪŋ] adj
showing promise of favourable development or future success promisingly adv ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
promising adjective 1. encouraging, likely, bright, reassuring, hopeful, favourable, rosy, auspicious, propitious, full of promise a new and promising stage in the negotiations encouraging discouraging, unfavourable, unpromising, inauspicious Translations promising [ˈprɒmɪsɪŋ] ADJ [student] → prometedor; [future, prospect] → esperanzador, halagüeño a promising young man → un joven que promete two promising candidates → dos candidatos buenos it doesn't look very promising → no promete mucho, no parece muy prometedor promising [ˈprɒmɪsɪŋ] adj [result, situation] → prometteur/euse promising adj → vielversprechend; that sounds promising → das klingt vielversprechend; so far the signs are not promising → bislang sind die Anzeichen nicht vielversprechend promising [ˈprɒmɪsɪŋ] adj → promettente it doesn't look promising → non sembra promettente the future is promising → il futuro promette bene promising [ˈprɒmɪsɪŋ] adj → promettente it doesn't look promising → non sembra promettente the future is promising → il futuro promette bene How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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A Tortoise desired to change its place of residence, so he asked an Eagle to carry him to his new home, promising her a rich reward for her trouble. "This is not a very promising beginning," said Mrs. Janetta was then only fifteen; naturally well disposed, endowed with a susceptible Heart, and a simpathetic Disposition, she might, had these amiable qualities been properly encouraged, have been an ornament to human Nature; but unfortunately her Father possessed not a soul sufficiently exalted to admire so promising a Disposition, and had endeavoured by every means on his power to prevent it encreasing with her Years. |
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