Usually means: Not likely to show success.
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  1. unpromising: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. unpromising: Merriam-Webster
  3. unpromising: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. unpromising: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. unpromising: Collins English Dictionary
  6. unpromising: Vocabulary.com
  7. unpromising: Wordnik
  8. unpromising: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. unpromising: Wiktionary
  10. unpromising: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. unpromising: Dictionary.com
  12. unpromising: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. unpromising: Rhymezone
  14. unpromising: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. unpromising: FreeDictionary.org
  16. unpromising: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. unpromising: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unpromising: Legal dictionary

(Note: See unpromisingly as well.)

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▸ adjective:  Not promising

Similar:
inauspicious, unfortunate, nonpromising, unlikely, unencouraging, nonpromissory, unhopeful, nonhopeful, underwhelming, unoptimistic, more...

Opposite:
promising, hopeful, encouraging, auspicious

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    gray,     beige,     dull brown,     olive drab,     mustard yellow, more...
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Similar:
inauspicious, unfortunate, nonpromising, unlikely, unencouraging, nonpromissory, unhopeful, nonhopeful, underwhelming, unoptimistic, more...

Opposite:
promising, hopeful, encouraging, auspicious

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     dull brown,     olive drab,     mustard yellow, more...



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