Synonyms for Founders:

• n.

  •entrepreneur (noun)
  • businessperson,
  • undertaker,
  • contractor,
  • executive,
  • IMPRESSARIO,
  • industrialist,
  • promoter,
  • administrator,
  • manager,
  • backer.
  •founder (noun)
  • patron.
  •precursors (noun)
  • antecessors,
  • Mothers,
  • pioneers,
  • forerunners,
  • forebears,
  • antecedents,
  • scouts,
  • trailblazers,
  • precursors,
  • precedents,
  • harbingers,
  • foreshadowers,
  • prototypes,
  • ancestors,
  • originators,
  • predecessors.

• v.

  •collapse (verb)
  • weary,
  • subside,
  • give way,
  • break,
  • drop,
  • fall down,
  • flake out,
  • succumb,
  • languish,
  • exhaust,
  • disintegrate,
  • fail,
  • give,
  • shatter,
  • go to pieces,
  • topple,
  • give in,
  • wilt,
  • cave in,
  • fold,
  • tire,
  • belly up,
  • give out,
  • weaken,
  • yield,
  • flag,
  • keel over,
  • crack up,
  • deflate,
  • droop,
  • crumple,
  • conk out,
  • bend,
  • faint.
  •disappoint (verb)
  • delude,
  • dash,
  • mislead,
  • tease,
  • disillusion,
  • dash hopes,
  • dissatisfy,
  • hamper,
  • deceive,
  • disgruntle,
  • circumvent,
  • balk,
  • ruin prospects,
  • chagrin,
  • baffle,
  • let down,
  • embitter,
  • fall short of,
  • put out,
  • leave in the lurch,
  • thwart,
  • stand up,
  • vex,
  • dumbfound,
  • fall flat,
  • torment,
  • cast down,
  • disconcert,
  • foil,
  • bring to naught,
  • fall down on,
  • bungle,
  • dishearten,
  • not show,
  • hinder,
  • disenchant.
  •fail (verb)
  • decline,
  • go up in smoke,
  • backslide,
  • go down swinging,
  • flounder,
  • fall short,
  • go wrong,
  • hit bottom,
  • lose out,
  • play into,
  • be defeated,
  • be in vain,
  • meet with disaster,
  • be found lacking,
  • run aground,
  • be demoted,
  • lose status,
  • flop,
  • go downhill,
  • come to naught,
  • hit the skids,
  • slip,
  • miss,
  • miss the boat,
  • go astray,
  • fizzle,
  • turn out badly,
  • be ruined,
  • back wrong horse,
  • deteriorate,
  • blunder,
  • lose control.
  •flop (verb)
  • come apart,
  • close,
  • wash out,
  • flummox.
  •founder (verb)
  • go down,
  • fall,
  • come to nothing,
  • abort,
  • lurch,
  • sink,
  • break down,
  • go lame,
  • stagger,
  • trip,
  • go to bottom,
  • stumble,
  • be lost,
  • submerse,
  • misfire,
  • fall through,
  • submerge,
  • sprawl,
  • collapse,
  • miscarry.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • ancestor,
  • antecedent,
  • architect,
  • ascendant,
  • author,
  • begetter,
  • beginner,
  • benefactor,
  • brain,
  • builder,
  • constructor,
  • creator,
  • deity,
  • designer,
  • forebear,
  • forefather,
  • foremother,
  • forerunner,
  • founder,
  • framer,
  • generator,
  • initiator,
  • inventor,
  • maker,
  • matriarch,
  • organizer,
  • originator,
  • parent,
  • paterfamilias,
  • patriarch,
  • planner,
  • precursor,
  • prime mover,
  • primogenitor,
  • producer,
  • progenitor,
  • relative,
  • sire,
  • Antecessor,
  • Establisher,
  • Foregoer,
  • Institutor,
  • materfamilias,
  • Procreator,
  • forebearer.

Paraphrases for Founders:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, plural
    originators, creators.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    institutional.
  • Noun, plural
    forefathers, underpinnings, pioneers, developers, fundamentals, builders, proponents, Promoters, incorporators, filmmakers, inventors, petitioners, funders, Fathers, writers, advocates, composers, presenters, drafters, ancestors, storytellers, grounds, initiators, authors, funds, planners, innovators, sponsors, co-sponsors, peacebuilders, perpetrators, contractors, DADS, framers, generators, shapers, deciders, Enhancers, Husbands, champions, auteurs, primers, starters, artists, preparers, basics, artisans, daddies, Bases.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    founding, investor, investors.
  • Noun, plural
    entrepreneurs, Foundations, designers, makers, architects.

Founders Sentence Examples:

• He points out that " the founders of religion have themselves protested against a craving after sensuous signs," and that this protest " is no other than the sign of spiritual power and of a Divine message and greatness."

• In his later years he formed a friendship with Pope, then a boy of 16. W. was one of the founders of the Comedy of Manners.