Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Full of promise; promising.
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Examples
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She consulted the newspapers and found a number of advertisements, some of them a little too mysterious, a little too promiseful.
We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914
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The yielding odorous soil is promiseful after its stubborn hardness of winter months and we watch it eagerly for the first herbaceous growth.
Some Winter Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905
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All others met at odd times and places, breathing in the promiseful air of the clean sod, resolute to put the world of hopeless failure behind them.
The Moccasin Ranch A Story of Dakota Hamlin Garland 1900
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Over the shingle bank the sea faded, a thin illusion, dim and promiseful of peace, and as the darkness and the sea filled
Spring Days 1892
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It said France and the European Union "look forward to the strengthening of the existing scientific cooperations with India in the field of space, which are particularly promiseful for the development of science and knowledge worldwide."
IntelliBriefs 2008
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