deadly vs promising

deadly

adj
  • Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile. 

  • Very boring. 

  • Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.). 

  • Excellent, awesome, cool. 

  • Causing death; lethal. 

adv
  • In a way which suggests death. 

  • Extremely, incredibly. 

promising

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

  • a promising young apprentice 

  • Encouraging and inspiring confidence. 

noun
  • The act of making a promise. 

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