PROMISING Antonyms

• offering little or no hope

• providing no shelter or sustenance

• unpleasantly cold and damp

• not up to expectations

• depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action

• expressing disapproval in order to dissuade

• destructive of morale and self-reliance

• producing no result or effect

• unproductive of success

• not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

• shockingly repellent; inspiring horror

• harshly ironic or sinister

• harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• causing dejection

• without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success

• of a person unable to do something skillfully

• certain to fail

• (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform

• not producing or capable of producing

• not producing desired results

• unlikely to bring about favorable results or enjoyment