promising

Definitions

Showing signs of future success or excellence.

Likely to turn out well or be favorable.

Examples

The young athlete showed a promising start to his professional career.

Scientists have discovered a promising new treatment for the disease.

It was a promising day, with clear skies and a gentle breeze.

Synonyms

hopeful encouraging auspicious favorable bright potential up-and-coming

Antonyms

unpromising hopeless discouraging bleak unfavorable inauspicious pessimistic