Synonyms of precursors

precursors

noun

plural of precursor

1

as in forerunners

one that announces or indicates the later arrival of another

18th-century lyric poets like Robert Burns were precursors of the Romantics

Synonyms & Similar Words

• forerunners
• symptoms
• harbingers
• angels
• signs
• heralds
• outriders
• foregoers
• messengers
• forewarnings
• foretastes
• advertisers
• foreshadowings
• runners
• criers
• auspices
• announcers
• foreshadowers
• proclaimers
• bodings
• couriers
• portents
• presages
• forebodings
• omens
• foreboders
• bellwethers
• blazoners
• auguries
• marks

2

as in ancestors

something belonging to an earlier time from which something else was later developed

a precursor of the modern eggplant

Synonyms & Similar Words

• forerunners
• ancestors
• prototypes
• predecessors
• antecedents
• grandaddies
• originals
• archetypes
• originators
• granddaddies
• daddies
• models
• mothers
• foregoers
• sires
• fathers

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• descendants
• descendents
• derivatives
• byproducts
• outgrowths
• offshoots
• sons
• daughters
• by-products
• spin-offs