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PROMISING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Likely to turn out well in the future
Example:
a hopeful new singer on Broadway
Synonyms:
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auspicious (auguring favorable circumstances and good luck)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Showing possibility of achievement or excellence
Example:
a promising young man
Classified under:
Similar:
likely (has a good chance of being the case or of coming about)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb promise
Context examples:
He began to think it was to be, and that he could not prevent it—a very promising step of the mind on its way to resignation.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
He too was much distressed; and they sat down together in a most promising state of embarrassment.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
When I last saw her, she was not very promising.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The remaining room appeared more promising, and my companion settled down to a systematic examination.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“God bless you for promising to come,” cried our client.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
After several refusals, Singletree, Darnley & Co. accepted it, promising fall publication.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Expanded access allows a patient to receive promising but not yet fully studied or approved cancer therapies when no other treatment option exists.
(Expanded access trial, NCI Dictionary)
It was young Stanley Hopkins, a promising detective, in whose career Holmes had several times shown a very practical interest.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Additional, larger studies will be needed to confirm and expand on these promising results.
(Omalizumab improves efficacy of oral immunotherapy for multiple food allergies, National Institutes of Health)
The biodiesel produced has been subject to laboratory testing for quality under the standards set by the National Oil, Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP), and the preliminary results proved promising.
(Petrobras considers producing biodiesel from microalgae, Agência Brasil)
