benign vs promising

benign

adj
  • Not harmful to the environment. 

  • Kind; gentle; mild. 

  • Not posing any serious threat to health; not particularly aggressive or recurrent. 

  • mild and favorable 

promising

noun
  • The act of making a promise. 

adj
  • Showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion. 

  • a promising young apprentice 

  • Encouraging and inspiring confidence. 

How often have the words benign and promising occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )