Cause and Progenitor

Related words

Cause noun - Someone or something responsible for a result.

Show all Definitions

Progenitor and cause are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Progenitor" instead a noun "Cause".

Nearby Words: caused, causation, causeless, causative, causal

Progenitor noun - A person who is several generations earlier in an individual's line of descent.

Show all Definitions

Cause and progenitor are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cause" instead a noun "Progenitor".

known	known cause	known progenitor
common	common cause	common progenitor
original	original cause	original progenitor
likely	likely cause	likely progenitor
Other adjectives: real, bad, new, apparent.

Cite this Source

Progenitor and Cause. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cause/progenitor

Cause & Progenitor. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/cause/progenitor>.

Progenitor or Cause. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/cause/progenitor.

Google Ngram Viewer shows how "cause" and "progenitor" have occurred on timeline