unpromising
adjective
[ ʌnˈprɒmɪsɪŋ ]
• not giving hope of future success or good results.
• "the boy's natural intellect had survived in unpromising circumstances"
Similar:
inauspicious,
unfavourable,
adverse,
disadvantageous,
unpropitious,
uninviting,
discouraging,
disheartening,
gloomy,
bleak,
black,
portentous,
foreboding,
hopeless,
ominous,
creepy,
baleful,
doomed,
jinxed,
damned,
cursed,
ill-fated,
ill-omened,
