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Exact Match:

promise

grounds for feeling hopeful about the future; "there is little or no promise that he will recover"

a verbal commitment by one person to another agreeing to do (or not to do) something in the future

make a promise or commitment

promise to undertake or give; "I promise you my best effort"

give grounds for expectations; "The new results were promising"; "The results promised fame and glory"

Synonyms:

• accede,
• accord,
• actuarial prediction,
• adumbration,
• afford hope,
• agree,
• agree to,
• agreement,
• apocalypse,
• arrangement,
• aspiration,
• assent,
• assumption,
• assurance,
• assure,
• assured faith,
• augur,
• augur well,
• augury,
• auspice,
• avouch,
• bargain,
• bargain for,
• be promising,
• bespeak,
• betoken,
• betokening,
• betokenment,
• bid fair,
• bid fair to,
• binding agreement,
• bond,
• capability,
• cartel,
• cheer,
• cheerful expectation,
• collective agreement,
• commitment,
• compact,
• confidence,
• consent,
• consortium,
• contract,
• convention,
• conviction,
• countersign,
• covenant,
• covenant of salt,
• deal,
• dependence,
• desire,
• dicker,
• do a deal,
• doomed hope,
• earnest,
• employment contract,
• engage,
• engagement,
• ensure,
• expectation,
• fair prospect,
• faith,
• fervent hope,
• foreboding,
• forecast,
• forecasting,
• foreshadow,
• foreshadowing,
• foreshowing,
• foresight,
• foretell,
• foretelling,
• foretoken,
• foretokening,
• formal agreement,
• give hope,
• give indication of,
• give prospect of,
• good cheer,
• good hope,
• great expectations,
• guarantee,
• guaranty,
• guesswork,
• have favorable odds,
• have good prospects,
• high hopes,
• hint,
• hint at,
• hold out hope,
• hold out promise,
• hope,
• hopeful prognosis,
• hopefulness,
• hopes,
• hoping,
• hoping against hope,
• imply,
• improbability,
• increase the chances,
• indicant,
• indicate,
• indication,
• inspire,
• inspire hope,
• inspirit,
• insure,
• ironclad agreement,
• justify hope,
• legal agreement,
• legal contract,
• likelihood,
• look like,
• make a deal,
• make a promise,
• make fair promise,
• make likely,
• make more likely,
• make probable,
• mutual agreement,
• oath,
• offer the expectation,
• omen,
• pact,
• paction,
• pass,
• pawn,
• pledge,
• plight,
• portent,
• potential,
• prayerful hope,
• prediction,
• prefiguration,
• prefigurement,
• prefiguring,
• preindication,
• premonitory shiver,
• premonitory sign,
• premonitory symptom,
• presage,
• presaging,
• presentiment,
• preshowing,
• presignifying,
• presumption,
• probability,
• probabilize,
• prognosis,
• prognostic,
• prognostication,
• prophecy,
• prophesying,
• prospect,
• prospects,
• prospectus,
• protocol,
• raise expectation,
• raise expectations,
• raise hope,
• reassure,
• reliance,
• sanguine expectation,
• security,
• seem likely,
• shadow,
• show a tendency,
• show signs of,
• sign,
• soothsay,
• speculation,
• stand fair to,
• statistical prediction,
• stipulate,
• stipulation,
• suggest,
• support,
• swear,
• token,
• tokening,
• transaction,
• troth,
• trust,
• type,
• understanding,
• undertake,
• undertaking,
• underwrite,
• union contract,
• valid contract,
• vaticination,
• vouch,
• vow,
• wage contract,
• warrant,
• warranty,
• well-grounded hope,
• word,
• word of honor