promising
About 9.72 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion.
a promising young apprentice
- adjective Encouraging and inspiring confidence.
- noun The act of making a promise.
- verb present participle and gerund of promise
Similar words
likely auspicious bright positive prospective interesting apt potential good propitious
Often followed by
to that young a and for results the new
Word family
promisingly
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