Word "PROMISE" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
make a prediction about; tell in advance
Synonyms:
anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
grounds for feeling hopeful about the future
Synonyms:
hope
Examples:
there is little or no promise that he will recover

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
make a promise or commitment
Synonyms:
assure

Crossword Clues for PROMISE

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Clue Source Date
Note part of writing shows potential (7) The Guardian Cryptic 13 Aug 2025
It is not kept if it is broken (7)
Assure me that I'm to be shown the ropes (7)
Potential writing style, penning note The Telegraph Cryptic 27 Jun 2025
Vow The Times Concise 13 Jun 2025
With 16 Across, symbols of a pledge of love...that can describe the contents of the shaded squares?
The guarantee is put inside for me (7)
Expression of assurance (7)
Hope of future excellence I'm raising in plain writing (7)
Potential pledge (7)
Give your word (7)
Guarantee before the order is put through (7)
A guarantee for the semi that's been converted (7)
Vow, word of honour (7)
Guarantee made by veteran is accepted by the writer (7)
I'm shown the ropes, I assure you!
Prime, so as to make an oath (7)
Hope for the future is contained in a form of proem (7)
Assure them that I'm to arrange the poser
Swear that you will definitely do or not do something (7)
Guarantee made by professional is accepted by the writer (7)
The _ Girls Aloud's 2008 hit (7)
I assure you, I'm getting into this poser
Oath: solemn -
*"Break a ___," when you fail to keep your word
Swear it will show hope for the future (7)
Vow one will show some hope for the future (7)
Sip more of a cocktail with hope for the future (7)
Vow it's shown by the bright child (7)
Bristol Rovers and 2022-24 Fleetwood striker (7,8)
Professional is enthralled by this compiler's potential The Telegraph Cryptic 06 Aug 2024
There's potential, you guarantee
Once it's made, it can be kept or broken (7)
My word, there's potential there! (7)
Give assurance it's not poetry I am to get backing in (7)
Semipro, oddly, shows potential for the future (7) The Guardian Quick Cryptic 08 Jun 2024
Semipro, oddly, shows potential for the future (7) The Guardian Quick 08 Jun 2024
Commit to do something (7)
Pledge, vow (7)
It's the sort of assurance that some rip to pieces
I assure you - some rip it apart!
Pledge to raise expectations (7)
An undertaker may give one (7)
It is made to do something in the future (7)
I'm backward in literary composition, but showing ground for hope (7)
Pledge Mirror Tea Time 13 Feb 2024
Sign of future success (7)
"If you wish to be a success in the world, ___ everything, deliver nothing": Napoleon Bonaparte (7)
Potential LA Times Daily 08 Feb 2024
Assure one that it's so prime that it should be distributed (7)
The sort of plight associated with one whose word is unreliable (6,7)
My word! I'm back in prose (7)
*Word said before telling a secret... or a synonym of "resolution"
Vow, pledge
Swear concert is easily begun (7) Puzzler Cryptic 16 Nov 2023
Swear concert is easily begun (7) Puzzler Cryptic 06 Nov 2023
Give your word to someone
Swear parking is needed in capital The Times Cryptic 14 Sep 2023
"Pinkie swear?" LA Times Daily 23 May 2023
Pledge The Telegraph Quick 16 Feb 2023
"Cross your heart?" LA Times Daily 02 Feb 2023
Word of honor Thomas Joseph 23 Jan 2023
The __, Damon Galgut's 2022 prize winner The Guardian Weekend 20 Aug 2022
"This I ___ You," song by Richard Marx from his 2000 album "Days in Avalon"
Vow The Telegraph Quick 29 Aug 2021
Pledge The Telegraph Quick 02 Mar 2021
Vow The Telegraph Quick 26 Jan 2021
Guarantee The Telegraph Quick 15 Jan 2021
Covenant The Telegraph Quick 18 Oct 2020
Potential seafront walk is ending in Hove
Solemn word Thomas Joseph 15 May 2020
Assure The Washington Post 08 Dec 2019
Assure LA Times Daily 08 Dec 2019
Agreement favouring skinflint getting curtailed
See 17D
So, prime suspect is to swear oath?
Word in email regularly seen in plain language The Telegraph Cryptic 09 Jun 2018
Potential LA Times Daily 14 Apr 2018
Potential The Washington Post 14 Apr 2018
Potential
Firm undertaking concert is English
Great potential Newsday 24 Sep 2017
Hope; commitment The Telegraph Quick 26 Apr 2017
It may be broken Wall Street Journal 01 Apr 2017
Guarantee concert is free at last
"Cross your heart?" LA Times Daily 27 Jul 2015
Take a pledge Newsday 13 Jul 2015
Take a pledge
Eve 6 song that about a vow?
"Cross your heart?"
American dance is last to demonstrate potential
Word for short, tight-fisted type
Pinkie swear, e.g.
Cause for hope in plight
Pinkie swear, e.g.
Declaration sometimes made with crossed fingers behind the back
Potential for growth
Make a pledge
Indication of future success
Sade album
Lick's companion
"You swear?"
It may be unfulfilled
"I do" is one
Vow
Resolution
Potential
One's word
Something too easily broken
Vow
Oath
Lick's partner
Pledge
Something to keep
Lick's companion
Foretoken
Take an oath
Ground for hope.
"Oh, ___ Me."
"Oh, ___ me that some day . . . "
It's either broken or kept.
Assure.
Indication of future success.
Given word.
Covenant.
Word.
Pledge.
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