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

Example Sentences

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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

"An innocent life, full of promise, stolen too soon," Israel said.

From Barron's • Oct. 20, 2025

A town in mourning for boys 'so full of promise'

From BBC • Nov. 23, 2023

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

Before him lay a destiny that was bright, free, and full of promise.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

full of promise

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