Unpromising is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for UNPROMISING in dictionary:

VERB:
• To retract (a promise); to retract a promise made to (someone).
ADJECTIVE:
• appearing unlikely to prove worthwhile or result favorably
• appearing unlikely to prove worthwhile or result favourably
• unlikely to bring about favorable results or enjoyment

Words related to UNPROMISING

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Words that contain UNPROMISING

unpromisingly21

How to use UNPROMISING in a sentence

• I felt quite cool, but I must admit that the situation was beginning to strike me as a little unpromising.
• Seemingly trivial pursuits have led to discoveries which have benefited all mankind, and priceless truths have been dug out of the most unpromising mines.
• Katherine had come home from college in July, determined to teach school all winter, and to make a success of it, too, in a most unpromising part of the world.
• Much the larger number of characters in these novels are of the same unpromising quality.
• But the house which had been built in this unpromising spot was quite entitled to be called a mansion.
• Haydn, however, almost as unpromising, was a great slayer of women.
• Whether the call came to them from a promising or unpromising field, on them rested the duty of responding.
• There was, at times, a want of spirits about him which, if it did not denote indifference, spoke of something almost as unpromising.
• Shakespeare was so masterly a playwright, and had so wonderful a power of giving life to unpromising subjects, that to a large extent he was able to surmount this difficulty.
• I saw him in January 1838, at Chunar, and a more unpromising boy I have rarely seen.
• Occasionally the most casual notice, on my part, of some very unpromising object has smoothed the way for the relation of a long and interesting narrative.
• So far as appeared, the contrivance was not unpromising.
• How Julia Page, reared in rather unpromising surroundings, lifted herself through sheer determination to a higher plane of life.
• The brothers Herndon, who had opened a new store, found business dull and unpromising.
• But, even under the most unpromising circumstances, it soon appeared that Christianity could accomplish social and spiritual changes of a very extraordinary character.
• They take all reasonable precautions and leave the rest to chance, with the result that they snatch some amusement out of circumstances that seem unpromising.
• There trotted after him an unpromising little brown dog with limp tail and ears.
• However, though I had no idea that I should be made a means to amuse the public, Currer Bell is perfectly welcome to what she can make of so unpromising a subject.
• We must have been unpromising material from the military point of view.
• He married the Keokuk girl and they began a struggle for life which turned out to be a difficult enterprise, and very unpromising.
• They were still in a dense forest region, as unpromising as that they had left.
• It certainly looked unpromising enough, being just such a rubbish heap as may be swept up in any untidy room during a move.
• Under these unpromising auspices, the parting took place, and the journey began.
• Agricultural concerns wore as unpromising an appearance in this as in the last month.
• This settlement wore a most unpromising appearance.
• Could any other field have been more unpromising, have offered more difficulties? There were those thousands of savages shut up in their all but inaccessible mountains.
• Rough as was the life of the Virginia border, it had done something to fit this unpromising recruit for the give and take of his new existence.
• The rains of this month came too late to save the Indian corn of the season, which now wore a most unpromising appearance.
• By this process he succeeded in producing poetic effects from the most unpromising materials.
• Caesar questioned him as to the situation at Pelusium, and Drusus described the unpromising attitude of Pothinus, and also mentioned how he had found Cornelia and his aunt.
• These, as Agnes supposed, were her future pupils, and a most unpromising set they at first sight appeared.
• It would be pointed out that many an investigation which, to the authorities of the time, appeared wholly unpromising, turned out to be of cardinal value.
• Unpromising as appearances were, there was no alternative but to seek shelter on the inhospitable shore.

Similar words containing PROMIS without suffix ing and without prefix un

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