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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This week they will add two more promising players via the first round of the NBA Draft.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2026

This week came more promising signs that recent regime change at the Food and Drug Administration is producing salutary effects for patients and innovation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026

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

Those meetings introduced him to an even more promising pool of like-minded Christians, the New Canaan Group, a Friday morning prayer breakfast typically attended by more than a hundred investment bankers and other professionals.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times