ADJ-GRADED 没前途的;没有希望的 If you describe something as unpromising, you think that it is unlikely to be successful or produce anything good in the future. 没前途的;没有希望的
In fact, his business career had distinctly unpromising beginnings.
事实上,他的经商生涯从初期就明显前景暗淡。
Their land looked so unpromising that the colonists eventually gave most of it back.