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Promisingly

Definition: Promisingly

Promisingly

Adverb

1. In an auspicious manner; "the afternoon had begun so promisingly".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "promisingly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1891. (references)


Speeches: Promisingly

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989Last September, I outlined principles to carry on the peace process begun so promisingly at Camp David.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Promisingly

"Promisingly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Promisingly" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%1785,106

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Promisingly

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "promisingly": promisingly-entitled, promisingly-titled.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Promisingly

Language Translations for "promisingly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

有为地. (various references)

   

German

  

vielversprechende. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

망하게. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

omisinglypray

   

Spanish

  

con esperanza. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Promisingly

Derivations

Words ending with "promisingly": uncompromisingly, unpromisingly. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Promisingly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-i-i-l-m-n-o-p-r-s-y"

-1 letter: imposingly.

-2 letters: imploring, promising, springily.

-3 letters: implying, imposing, imprison, ligroins, mislying, mopingly, pignolis, pilgrims, posingly, primings, rimpling, signiory, spoiling, spongily.

-4 letters: grimily, impings, ligroin, limping, lisping, moiling, noisily, origins, pignoli, pilgrim, pilings, ploying, poising, priming, prising, prosily, prosing, roiling, romping, signior, signori, signory, siloing, sirloin, sliming, sliping, sloping, smiling, soiling, spiling, spiring, sporing, springy.

 Words containing the letters "g-i-i-l-m-n-o-p-r-s-y"
 

+1 letter: polymerising.

 

+2 letters: unpromisingly.

 

+4 letters: oversimplifying.

 

+5 letters: uncompromisingly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Speeches
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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