full of promise

ADJECTIVE

favorable

Synonyms

STRONGEST

appropriate beneficial benign convenient encouraging fair helpful pleasant pleasing suitable useful

WEAK

auspicious benefic bright cheering fit fortunate gratifying happy healthful hopeful kindly lucky nice opportune pleasurable pleasureful promising propitious prosperous providential reassuring seasonable toward welcome well-timed wholesome worthy

Antonyms

STRONGEST

disadvantageous harmful hateful hurtful improper inappropriate injurious unacceptable unfitting unhelpful unsuitable unsuited useless worthless

WEAK

bad derogatory detrimental disagreeable hindering hurting unfavorable unfriendly unpromising

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Will xAI owner SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic, all certainly full of promise, trade in the same emotional way after their expected public offerings?

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

"The economy is breathing again -- stronger, steadier and full of promise," Forson said, noting that GDP grew 6.3 percent in the first half of 2025, up from 5.3 percent in 2024.

From Barron's • Nov. 13, 2025

It’s just a 5-foot skinny stick now, but it has leafed out and is so beautiful and full of promise.

From Seattle Times • May 24, 2024

USC coach Lincoln Riley’s refusal to get rid of defensive coordinator Alex Grinch has turned a season full of promise for the Trojans into a big fat waste.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2023

That well-tended estate was the very opposite of ramshackle, with no failing crops to be found, only daffodils in bright yellow bloom and the swelling green buds of tulips, full of promise.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

full of promise

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