Showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion.
a promising young apprentice
Encouraging and inspiring confidence.
The act of making a promise.
Soggy (to refer to pastries).
Causing sorrow; lamentable.
Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull.
Appearing sorrowful.
Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.
Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor.
Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.