Synonyms of wellsprings

wellsprings

noun

plural of wellspring

1

as in sources

a point or place at which something is invented or provided

the nation's colleges and universities were a wellspring for political activism and unrest

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sources
• fountains
• origins
• cradles
• springs
• roots
• fountainheads
• wells
• fonts
• beginnings
• seedbeds
• commencements
• geneses
• inceptions
• starts
• thresholds
• outsets
• day ones
• dawns
• baselines
• nascencies
• incipiencies
• onsets
• first bases
• incipiences
• ground zeros
• launches
• nascences
• mornings
• kickoffs
• git-goes
• square ones
• get-goes

2

as in repositories

an abundant source

a gossip who is a wellspring of juicy information about the latest goings-on around town

Synonyms & Similar Words

• repositories
• argosies
• gold mines
• cornucopias
• mines
• storehouses
• treasure troves
• mother lodes
• treasure-houses
• armories
• stockpots
• stashes
• hoards
• bonanzas
• caches
• stores
• honeypots
• gravy trains
• Golcondas

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• black holes
• sinkholes

• black holes
• sinkholes