Definitions for promising
ˈprɒm ə sɪŋpromis·ing

Princeton's WordNet(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. promising(adj)

   showing possibility of achievement or excellence

   "a promising young man"

2. bright, hopeful, promising(adj)

   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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. promising(Adjective)

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

2. promising(Adjective)

   Encouraging and inspiring confidence.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Promising

   of Promise

2. Promising(adj)

   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

How to pronounce promising?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say promising in sign language?

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. Denise Chamberlain:

   PROMISING TREATMENT FOR VITILIGO SKIN CONDITION At one point, the Indiana woman was so fearful of leaving the house without her makeup she became depressed, even considering suicide, because she hated her looks. It made me into a person who didn't want to be noticed. That mask was everything for me.

2. Kingdom Holding:

   The investment in Careem is a continuation of the company's strategy to invest in new promising technologies.

3. Herbert Hainer:

   It never feels good if you don't reach all of your goals, neither in sport, nor in business nor in your personal life. But the key thing is to never give up, we have taken our learnings from 2014 and developed an exciting and promising strategy for the period up until 2020.

4. 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.

5. Hiromichi Morimoto:

   Asia Pacific region is promising for us, for regional jets. We are right now working really hard on sales promotion in the Asia Pacific region.

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