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Promising   /prˈɑməsɪŋ/   Listen
Promising

adjective
1.
Showing possibility of achievement or excellence.
2.
Full or promise.  Synonyms: bright, hopeful.  "The scandal threatened an abrupt end to a promising political career" , "A hopeful new singer on Broadway"


Promise

verb
(past & past part. promised; pres. part. promising)
1.
Make a promise or commitment.  Synonym: assure.
2.
Promise to undertake or give.
3.
Make a prediction about; tell in advance.  Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate.
4.
Give grounds for expectations.  "The results promised fame and glory"



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"Promising" Quotes from Famous Books



... 2. By promising and threatening. What promise did God ever make to any act or performance, which was not a duty? or what threatening against any act which was not a sin? He promises to them that forsake all for Christ, a "hundred-fold ...
— The Divine Right of Church Government • Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
... was far from promising. Indeed, he could not remember ever seeing Nick look more antagonistic than just then, even though he ...
— The Chums of Scranton High at Ice Hockey • Donald Ferguson
... myself. I have, I say, my eye on a dog. I remember some one promising me a clever poodle a year ago. Will think who it ...
— Happy-Thought Hall • F. C. Burnand
... always had, and have, of employing myself in your Majesty's service. May His Divine Majesty so well manage it that, if life does not fail me, I shall, with the protection of God, endeavor to employ it to my very utmost—without my promising more at greater length, for we can promise much from the hands of His Divine Majesty, but from our own but little. In order that the successful end of such intents may be better attained, at the best time, without there being any lack, I petition your Majesty ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 • Emma Helen Blair
... contained them. Moose signs and bear signs were everywhere; rabbits, now in their summer livery, flitted from bush to bush. That belt of wood was a zoological garden stocked with birds and mammals. And we rejoiced with them over their promising families and ...
— The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) - A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest - Peak in North America • Hudson Stuck


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