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promising
Adjective
  • Showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion.
  • Encouraging and inspiring confidence.
Verb
  • present participle of promise
Noun
  • The act of making a promise.
promise
Noun
  • An oath or affirmation; a vow. countable
  • A transaction between two persons whereby the first person undertakes in the future to render some service or gift to the second person or devotes something valuable now and here to his use. countable
  • Reason to expect improvement or success; potential. uncountable
  • A placeholder object that can be manipulated in code before it has been assigned a value. countable, computing, programming
  • Bestowal or fulfillment of what is promised. countable, obsolete
Verb
  • To commit to something or action; to make an oath; make a vow. transitive
  • To give grounds for expectation, especially of something good. intransitive