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| Main Entry: | founder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who establishes an institution |
| Synonyms: | architect, author, beginner, benefactor, builder, creator, designer, forebearer, generator, inventor, maker, organizer, originator, patron, planner, prime mover*, constructor, establisher, framer, initiator, institutor |
| Notes: | founder means to sink, while flounder means to flail helplessly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | founder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go under, fail |
| Synonyms: | abort, collapse, fall, go down, lurch, misfire, sink, sprawl, stagger, stumble, submerge, trip, be lost, break down, come to nothing, fall through, go lame, go to bottom, miscarry, submerse |
| Antonyms: | accomplish, achieve, succeed |
| Main Entry: | ancestor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | predecessor in family |
| Synonyms: | antecedent, forebear, forefather, forerunner, founder, precursor, progenitor, antecessor, ascendant, foregoer, foremother, primogenitor |
| Antonyms: | descendant |
| Main Entry: | collapse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall apart, break down |
| Synonyms: | bend, break, crack up*, crumple, deflate, disintegrate, droop, drop, exhaust, fail, faint, flag, fold, founder, give, give in, go*, go to pieces*, keel over, languish, shatter, subside, succumb, tire, topple, weaken, weary, wilt, yield, belly up, cave in, conk out*, fall down, flake out, give out, give way |
| Antonyms: | build, increase, rise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | creator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inventor; God |
| Synonyms: | architect, author, brain, deity, designer, founder, generator, maker, originator, prime mover, sire, begetter, framer, initiator, producer |
| Antonyms: | destroyer, destructor |
| Main Entry: | disappoint |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sadden, dismay; frustrate |
| Synonyms: | abort, baffle, balk, bungle, chagrin, circumvent, dash, deceive, delude, disconcert, dishearten, disillusion, dissatisfy, dumbfound, embitter, fail, foil, founder, hamper, hinder, leave in the lurch, let down, mislead, put out, tease, thwart, torment, vex, bring to naught, cast down, come to nothing, dash hopes, disenchant, disgruntle, fall down on, fall flat, fall short of, miscarry, not show, ruin prospects, stand up |
| Antonyms: | delight, excite, please, satisfy, make happy |
| Main Entry: | entrepreneur |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who starts a business alone |
| Synonyms: | administrator, backer, businessperson, contractor, executive, founder, industrialist, manager, organizer, promoter, undertaker, impressario, producer |
| Main Entry: | forebearer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | family predecessor |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, antecedent, author, forerunner, founder, matriarch, originator, parent, patriarch, precursor, progenitor, relative, sire, ascendant, begetter, materfamilias, paterfamilias, primogenitor, procreator |
| Main Entry: | go down |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lose, fall |
| Synonyms: | collapse, crumple, decline, decrease, descend, droop, drop, fold, founder, go under, keel, lessen, pitch, plunge, reduce, sag, set, sink, slump, submerge, submit, succumb, topple, tumble, be beaten, be defeated, cave in, make less, submerse, suffer defeat |
| Antonyms: | gain, increase, go up |
| Main Entry: | go under |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fail, submerge |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, default, die, drown, fall, fold, founder, go down, sink, submit, succumb, suffocate, surrender, submerse |
| Antonyms: | accomplish, achieve, succeed |
| Main Entry: | inventor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | discoverer |
| Synonyms: | architect, author, builder, creator, designer, father, founder, innovator, maker, originator, pioneer, coiner, experimenter |
| Main Entry: | keel over |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall, faint |
| Synonyms: | black out, capsize, collapse, drop, founder, go down, overturn, pass out, pitch, plunge, slump, swoon, topple, tumble, upset |
| Antonyms: | stand, straighten |
| Main Entry: | originator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creator |
| Synonyms: | architect, author, designer, father, founder, innovator, inventor, maker, mastermind, mother, pioneer, begetter, discoverer, initiator, producer |
| Main Entry: | pioneer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who finds a new place, founds something |
| Synonyms: | colonist, developer, explorer, founder, guide, immigrant, innovator, leader, pilgrim, scout, settler, squatter, colonizer, frontier settler, homesteader, pathfinder, trailblazer |
| Main Entry: | topple |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall or knock over; overthrow |
| Synonyms: | bring down, capsize, collapse, fall, falter, founder, go down, keel over, land, lurch, oust, overturn, pitch, plunge, slump, stagger, stumble, teeter, totter, tumble, turn over, unseat, upset, do a pratfall, go belly up, hit the dirt, knock down, lose it, nose-dive, overbalance, take a header, tip over, unhorse |
| Antonyms: | place, put, straighten |
| Main Entry: | trip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall, err |
| Synonyms: | buck, canter, confuse, disconcert, founder, frolic, hop, lapse, lope, lurch, miscalculate, misstep, pitch, play, plunge, skip, slide, slip, sprawl, spring, stumble, throw off, topple, tumble, unsettle, fall over, go headlong, go wrong, lose balance, lose footing, make a faux pas, slip on, slip up |
| Antonyms: | correct, fix |
| Main Entry: | wreck |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ruin, destroy |
| Synonyms: | bash, batter, beach, break, capsize, crack up*, crash, cripple, dash, decimate, demolish, devastate, disable, do in*, efface, founder, impair, injure, mangle, mar, mess up*, ravage, raze, sabotage, scuttle, shatter, sink, smash, spoil, strand, subvert, total*, trash*, undermine, vandalize, wrack*, dilapidate, pile up*, put out of commission, run aground, shipwreck, smash up, take apart, take out, tear up, torpedo*, wrack up |
| Antonyms: | build, create, repair |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | keel |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall |
| Synonyms: | black out, capsize, collapse, drop, faint, founder, go down, overturn, pass out, pitch, plunge, slump, swoon, topple, tumble, upset |
| Main Entry: | patriarch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | male head |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, architect, author, chief, creator, elder, father, founder, generator, grandfather, head, inventor, maker, master, old man, originator, ruler, senior, sire, gaffer, graybeard, paterfamilias |
| Antonyms: | matriarch |
| Main Entry: | fail |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be unsuccessful |
| Synonyms: | abort, backslide, blunder, decline, deteriorate, fall, fizzle, flop, flounder, fold, founder, go down*, miss, slip, back wrong horse, be defeated, be demoted, be found lacking, be in vain, be ruined, break down, come to naught, come to nothing, fall flat, fall short, fall through*, go astray, go down swinging, go downhill, go up in smoke, go wrong, hit bottom, hit the skids, lose control, lose out, lose status, meet with disaster, miscarry, miss the boat, play into, run aground, turn out badly |
| Antonyms: | accomplish, achieve, earn, gain, merit, obtain, prosper, reach, succeed, win |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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