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unpromising

[ US /ənˈpɹɔmɪsɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ʌnpɹˈɒmɪsɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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.
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