| Promising 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Promise. 2. (a.) Making a promise or promises; affording hope or assurance; as, promising person; a promising day. Thesaurus Entries 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 |