Promising

English

Adjective

Promising (comparative more Promising, superlative most Promising)

1. Showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion.
2. Encouraging and inspiring confidence.

Verb

promising

1. Present participle of promise.

Thesaurus

apt, auspicious, benign, benignant, bright, bright with promise, cheering, couleur de rose, encouraging, fair, favorable, favoring, foreseeable, fortunate, full of promise, golden, good, happy, heartening, hopeful, in the cards, inspiring, inspiriting, liable, likely, looking up, lucky, odds-on, of good omen, of happy portent, of promise, optimistic, positive, predictable, predictable within limits, pregnant of good, presumable, presumptive, probable, propitious, prosperous, reassuring, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, statistically probable, supportive, verisimilar

Translations

Adjective

showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion

Chinese: Mandarin: 有為 (zh), 有为 (zh) (yǒuwéi), 有望 (zh) (yǒuwàng) Czech: slibný (cs), nadějný (cs) Dutch: hoopgevend (nl), veelbelovend (nl) French: prometteur (fr) German: vielversprechend (de)

Hindi: होनहार (hi) (honhār) Japanese: 有望な (ja) (ゆうぼうな, yūbō-na), 有為な (ja) (ゆういな, yūi-na) Russian: многообещающий (ru) (mnogoobeščájuščij) Scottish Gaelic: gealltanach (gd), dòchasach (gd) Spanish: prometedor (es) m., prometedora (es) f.