What does promising mean?

Definitions for promising
ˈprɒm ə sɪŋpromis·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. promisingadjective

    showing possibility of achievement or excellence

    "a promising young man"

  2. bright, hopeful, promisingadjective

    full or promise

    "had a bright future in publishing"; "the scandal threatened an abrupt end to a promising political career"; "a hopeful new singer on Broadway"

Wiktionary

  1. promisingadjective

    Showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion.

  2. promisingadjective

    Encouraging and inspiring confidence.

ChatGPT

  1. promising

    Promising refers to showing signs of future success or potential. It can also mean expected or likely to succeed or to have a favorable outcome. Additionally, it can denote a commitment or assurance that one will do a particular action or that a particular event will happen.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Promising

    of Promise

  2. Promisingadjective

    making a promise or promises; affording hope or assurance; as, promising person; a promising day

British National Corpus

  1. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'promising' in Adjectives Frequency: #856

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of promising in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of promising in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of promising in a Sentence

  1. Richard Aboulafia:

    If Aerion can't do it with a promising business case, who the hell can ?

  2. Bill Hillsman:

    Obama isn't that much different from Trump. He was promising big change, he managed to look like an outsider and a fresh face, and he got people to believe in him, not just in what he was promising issues-wise and policy-wise, many of these independents now see in Trump what they wanted Obama to provide. The Donald is most definitely outside the system, yet people feel like they know him.

  3. Andrew Kelvin:

    As much as it's a very strong headline number the underlying is not quite as promising.

  4. Kris Famm:

    We have had really promising results in animal tests, where we've shown we can address some chronic diseases with this mechanism, and now we are bringing that work into the clinic, our goal is to have our first medicines ready for regulatory approval in seven years.

  5. Steve Clapcote:

    Our work using mice has identified phosphodiesterase-4B as a promising target for potential new treatments.

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