unpromising

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: un=prom=is=ing

OXFORD DICTIONARY

unpromising, adj. not likely to turn out well.

Derivative

unpromisingly adv.

THESAURUS

unpromising

adverse, apocalyptic, bad, baleful, baneful, black, bodeful, boding, dark, dire, doomful, doubtable, doubtful, dreary, dubious, dubitable, evil, evil-starred, fateful, foreboding, gloomy, hardly possible, hopeless, ill, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, implausible, improbable, inauspicious, incredible, lowering, menacing, more than doubtful, of evil portent, ominous, portending, portentous, questionable, sinister, somber, threatening, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlikely, unlucky, unpropitious, untoward

ROGET THESAURUS

unpromising

Hopelessness

N hopelessness, despair, desperation, despondency, depression, pessimism, pessimist, Job's comforter, bird of bad omen, bird of ill omen, abandonment, desolation, resignation, surrender, submission, hope deferred, dashed hopes, vain expectation, airy hopes &c, forlorn hope, gone case, dead duck, gone coon, goner, bad job, bad business, enfant perdu, gloomy horizon, black spots in the horizon, slough of Despond, cave of Despair, immedicabile vulnus, hopeless, desperate, despairing, gone, in despair, au desespoir, forlorn, desolate, inconsolable, broken hearted, unpromising, unpropitious, inauspicious, ill-omened, threatening, clouded over, out of the question, not to be thought of, impracticable, past hope, past cure, past mending, past recall, at one's last gasp, given up, given over, incurable, cureless, immedicable, remediless, beyond remedy, incorrigible, irreparable, irremediable, irrecoverable, irreversible, irretrievable, irreclaimable, irredeemable, irrevocable, ruined, undone, immitigable, lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate, its days are numbered, the worst come to the worst, no change, no pause, no hope, yet I endure, O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, mene mene tekel upharson.