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more promising

ADJECTIVE

hopeful

Synonyms

STRONGEST

auspicious bright encouraging gifted talented up-and-coming

STRONG

assuring reassuring rising

WEAK

able favorable happy likely lucky propitious roseate rosy

Antonyms

STRONGEST

dull unhappy unintelligent

WEAK

hopeless unpromising

Example Sentences

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We should all be living for the now — no doubt we’d like to, released from the memory of a recent past where the future looked so much more promising than it does today.

From Salon • May 30, 2026

Ministers privately and publicly would point to at least some economic indicators that were looking more promising.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

Some young Americans are now pivoting their careers to try to seek paths that seem more promising and less likely to end up derailed by automation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

The Russian president instead proposed to divert volumes away from the European market “to more promising areas” like the Asia-Pacific region, Slovakia and Hungary, which he said were “reliable counterparties.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

Desperate to believe that luck can offer us a more promising fate.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz