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promising

adj
/ˈpɹɑmɪsɪŋ/US/ˈpɹɒmɪsɪŋ/UK

Definitions

  1. Showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion.

    • a promising young apprentice

  2. Encouraging and inspiring confidence.

  3. present participle and gerund of promise

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. The act of making a promise.

      • So it cannot be supposed that promisings differ from other word-givings in that a word-giver makes a promise only if he or she uses the locution "I promise".

The neighborhood

Derived

nonpromising, promisingly, promisingness, unpromising

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at promising. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at promising. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at promising

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA