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- Dictionarypromising/ˈprɒmɪsɪŋ/
adjective
- 1. showing signs of future success: "a promising film actor" Similar Opposite
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Try this definition: promise : 2. Indication of something favorable to come; expectation: a promise of spring in the air. If someone says something seems promising then they are saying, 1. that if it happens it will be good, and 2. that they think there appears to be a "good" chance that it will happen. Share.
Feb 8, 2019 · A native speaker who reviewed this sentence asked me to change "potential" to "promising". I couldn't get it because I can see in oxford dictionary that "potential" is also used as an adjective like in the following examples: **Many supermarkets now provide free buses to carry potential customers into their premises.’
Aug 3, 2018 · [Name] has a promising career/future in [software engineering] promising career = likely to be successful . NB. The OP should avoid saying that someone's future looks potential, it is not idiomatic or grammatical. Google produces only six results for this phrase, two of which come from the OP's question.
Aug 25, 2021 · Now it might be said that the moral rigorism involved in the view that we ought never, in any circumstances, to make false promises, tell lies or break promises is just a personal idiosyncrasy of Kant's, and that we do not have to treat it as an integral part of his moral philosophy...It is one thing to argue that if everyone made false promises whenever they thought it to their advantage there could be no such thing as a promise...
Feb 12, 2011 · There is really no difference. It can be argued that "You have my word" is a bit stronger, because "my word" means the person is taking an oath, in effect guaranteeing based on that person's honor, but that is a very fine point indeed.
Sep 4, 2013 · A pinky promise (or "pinky swear") is a gesture in which two parties interlock little fingers in a symbolic gesture of agreement. What is the origin of this phrase? One possibility, and probably the
Apr 6, 2013 · But in a more precise (relatively speaking :) usage of the term, I'd say that "It's all relative" refers to the possibility of different vantage points and contexts. For example: "To Bill Gates, ten thousand dollars is nothing, but to a homeless person it's a fortune. It's all relative." It's stretching the usage to apply it to two "greatests."
May 1, 2018 · I’m not sure why you say that pronouns normally do not act as determiners—the most deictic of all pronouns, the demonstrative pronouns, also function as determiners (in some contexts being even forced into determinerhood): “That is a red car” vs.
Jan 22, 2013 · In British data from the BNC², leapt is ahead by similar ratio. Based on this, I think that you can use 'leaped' or 'leapt'; both are acceptable past-tense and past-participle forms for the verb leap. As Bryan A. Garner says³: “Because leapt is pronounced /lept/, the mistaken form lept is frequently encountered.”.
Jul 15, 2014 · The premise that autumntime “is not a word” is faulty: it is a word. Unlike most dictionaries, the OED does include autumn-time. It is quite rare in comparison with the other seasons’ versions. Variations in punctuation, spacing, and capitalization do not matter.
