Synonyms of progenitors

progenitors

noun

plural of progenitor

as in ancestors

a person who is several generations earlier in an individual's line of descent

the progenitors of today's Maya once ruled a mighty empire that stretched across much of Central America

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ancestors
• grandfathers
• fathers
• forebears
• forefathers
• forebearers
• predecessors
• grandmothers
• primogenitors
• patriarchs
• matriarchs
• foremothers
• ancestresses
• grandsires
• antecedents
• ancestries
• antecessors
• sires
• roots

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• descendants
• children
• offspring
• families
• issues
• lineages
• seed
• stocks
• sons
• progenies
• successors
• daughters
• heirs
• posterities
• inheritors
• scions

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of progenitors

Watching their metronomic thriller does more to suggest the arrival of a hyper-sexualized answer to the Coen brothers than the progeny of William Gibson or the progenitors of multiplex psychedelia. — Nick Newman, IndieWire, 1 June 2026

Its story of five girls — all navigating preteenagerdom under the stewardship of their tragically well-meaning white dads — stands firmly on its own legs, even staring down some of its progenitors. — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 May 2026

To get to the bottom of things, though, the team behind the new research examined the host galaxies and environments of LFBOTs to try to pin down what the progenitors of these explosive events could really be. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 May 2026

In a scene following the triumph of successfully creating a human blastocyst outside the womb, IVF’s three progenitors face the Medical Research Council. — Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026

The key to calculating the amount of energy blasted out is realizing that the mass of a merger’s resulting black hole is not simply the sum of its progenitors. — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2026

Somewhere in Africa there is a city, town, or village where Henry Fordham’s progenitors lived and died for hundreds or thousands of years, where my distant relatives walk the streets today. — Eugene Robinson, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2026

Mamdani was born in Uganda to Indian parents, and Duwaji in Texas to Syrian Muslim progenitors. — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 2 Jan. 2026

Skye and Billy’s progenitors, by contrast, are revealed to have been free-spirited and independent-minded people who simply left out lots of their complicated, peripatetic story. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025