Unpromising - English meaning

adjective

Preventing success or development; harmful; unfavourable.

Usage examples:

Taxes are having an adverse effect on production

adjective

Going against something, or causing harm

Usage examples:

Her policies may have adverse effects on the economy.

adjective

Harmful or likely to cause problems

Usage examples:

A chain reaction of adverse events in the financial markets has put lenders under severe pressure.,…

adjective

Threatening harm; menacing.

Usage examples:

Bill shot a baleful glance in her direction

adjective

Threatening to do something bad or to hurt someone

Usage examples:

He gave me a baleful look., his baleful influence

adjective

Of the very darkest colour owing to the absence of or complete absorption of light; the opposite of white.

Usage examples:

Black smoke

verb

Belonging to or denoting any human group having dark-coloured skin, especially of african or australian aboriginal ancestry.

Usage examples:

Black adolescents of jamaican descent

noun

Another term for hamburger.

adjective

(of an area of land) lacking vegetation and exposed to the elements.

Usage examples:

A bleak and barren moor

noun

A small silvery shoaling fish of the carp family, found in eurasian rivers.

Usage examples:

The flies for pike were naturally bigger than the bleaks, so they left me alone and i got some pike.

adjective

Causing an unpleasant feeling of fear or unease.

Usage examples:

The creepy feelings one often gets in a strange house

adjective

Strange and slightly frightening

Usage examples:

A creepy old house

noun

A barrier constructed to hold back water and raise its level, forming a reservoir used to generate electricity or as a water supply.

Usage examples:

The dam burst after torrential rain

verb

Build a dam across (a river or lake).

Usage examples:

The river was dammed to form lake powell

noun

The female parent of an animal, especially a domestic mammal.

Usage examples:

One version is inherited from the dog's sire and one from its dam

adjective

Involving or creating unfavourable circumstances that reduce the chances of success or effectiveness.

Usage examples:

The new employment scheme is disadvantageous to women

adjective

Causing problems, especially causing something or someone to be less successful than other things or people

Usage examples:

Disadvantageous to email can be disadvantageous to people who have stronger oral skills than writin…

adjective

Causing someone to lose confidence or enthusiasm; depressing.

Usage examples:

A discouraging experience

verb

Cause (someone) to lose confidence or enthusiasm.

Usage examples:

Tedious regulations could discourage investors

adjective

Causing someone to lose determination or confidence; discouraging or dispiriting.

Usage examples:

Her death is particularly disheartening because it was preventable

verb

Cause (someone) to lose determination or confidence.

Usage examples:

The farmer was disheartened by the damage to his crops

adjective

Causing a person to lose confidence, hope, and energy; discouraging

Usage examples:

The new injury, after he had come back from the last, was disheartening.

adjective

Likely to have an unfortunate and inescapable outcome; ill-fated.

Usage examples:

The moving story of their doomed love affair

verb

Condemn to certain death or destruction.

Usage examples:

Fuel was spilling out of the damaged wing and the aircraft was doomed

adjective

Certain to fail, die, or be destroyed

Usage examples:

This is a doomed city.

noun

A feeling that something bad will happen; fearful apprehension.

Usage examples:

With a sense of foreboding she read the note

adjective

Implying that something bad is going to happen.

Usage examples:

When the doctor spoke, his voice was dark and foreboding

verb

(of a situation or occurrence) act as an advance warning of (something bad).

Usage examples:

This lull foreboded some new assault upon him

adjective

Dark or poorly lit, especially so as to appear depressing or frightening.

Usage examples:

A gloomy corridor badly lit by oil lamps

adjective

Feeling or causing despair.

Usage examples:

Jess looked at him in mute hopeless appeal

adjective

Without hope

Usage examples:

We tried to save the building, but it was a hopeless task (= it could not succeed).

adjective

Not conducive to success; unpromising.

Usage examples:

Following this inauspicious start the british, outnumbered, withdrew

adjective

Suggesting that success is not likely

Usage examples:

After an inauspicious start, our team went on to win the game 30 to 24.

verb

Bring bad luck to; cast an evil spell on.

Usage examples:

The play is jinxed

noun

A person or thing that brings bad luck.

Usage examples:

One was never to wish luck to someone going hunting or fishing, as it was seen as a jinx

exclamation

Said when two people inadvertently say the same thing at once.

Usage examples:

‘what's happened?’ we both say at exactly the same time. ‘jinx!’

adjective

Giving the worrying impression that something bad is going to happen; threateningly inauspicious.

Usage examples:

There were ominous dark clouds gathering overhead

adjective

Suggesting something unpleasant will happen

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An ominous silence, clouds had gathered ominously.

adjective

Of or like a portent; of momentous significance.

Usage examples:

This portentous year in canadian history

adjective

Too serious and trying to be very important

Usage examples:

The problem with the book is that it sometimes descends into portentous philosophizing., the report…

adjective

Expressing or showing a lack of approval or support.

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Single mothers are often the target of unfavourable press attention

adjective

Not good, and likely to cause problems or prevent success

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Other countries may lure private equity executives offshore if the tax regime in britain became unf…

adjective

Not giving you an advantage or a good chance of success

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Current conditions are very unfavourable for new businesses., we have to be prepared for an unfavou…

adjective

(especially of a place or prospect) not attractive.

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The house was dark and uninviting

adjective

(especially of a place) not attractive

adjective

(of a circumstance) not giving or indicating a good chance of success; unfavourable.

Usage examples:

His reports were submitted at a financially unpropitious time

adjective

Not likely to be successful, or not showing any signs of success

Usage examples:

It may have seemed an unpropitious time for a general election., she assumed power in distinctly un…