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US
/ənˈpɹɔmɪsɪŋ/
]
[ UK /ʌnpɹˈɒmɪsɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ʌnpɹˈɒmɪsɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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unlikely to bring about favorable results or enjoyment
music for unpromising combinations of instruments
faced an unpromising task
How To Use unpromising In A Sentence
- It is set in an unpromising block, but once you heft aside the wooden door you find yourself in an old apothecary, with glass-fronted cabinets, wood-panelled walls and waitresses in dirndls.
- Sales improved after an unpromising start .
- Sydney Carton , idlest and most unpromising of men, was Stryver's great ally.
- Only a congenial outsider would remain with so unpromising a figure.
- Burdekin plum (PLEIOGYNIUM SOLANDRI), and all sorts of unpromisingly tough and apparently indigestible, innutritious woodeny nuts and drupes. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
- Sales improved after an unpromising start .
- Such brief moments of happiness snatched from unpromising circumstances are generally the most that Loach's characters can hope for.
- In this kind of unpromising context, the Industry Interface is a big step. IndiaPRwire - Press/News Releases
- In these unpromising circumstances a living community grows up.
- Their land looked so unpromising that the colonists eventually gave most of it back.