Promising vs Sunny - What's the difference?
promising | sunny | Related terms |
Showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion.
Encouraging and inspiring confidence.
The act of making a promise.
* 1992 , Judith Jarvis Thomson, The Realm of Rights (page 299)
(of weather or a day) Featuring a lot of sunshine.
(of a place) Receiving a lot of sunshine.
(figuratively, of a person or a person's mood) Cheerful.
* Shakespeare
Of or relating to the sun; proceeding from, or resembling the sun; brilliant; radiant.
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
(US, regional) sunny side up
As adjectives the difference between promising and sunny
is that promising is showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion while sunny is featuring a lot of sunshine.As nouns the difference between promising and sunny
is that promising is the act of making a promise while sunny is a sunfish.As a verb promising
is present participle of lang=en.As an adverb sunny is
sunny side up.promising
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- So it cannot be supposed that promisings differ from other word-givings in that a word-giver makes a promise only if he or she uses the locution "I promise".
sunny
English
Adjective
(er)- Whilst it may be sunny today, the weather forecast is predicting rain.
- the sunny side of a hill
- I would describe Spain as sunny , but it's nothing in comparison to the Sahara.
- a sunny disposition
- My decayed fair / A sunny look of his would soon repair.
- sunny beams
- sunny locks