source - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

a facility where something is available

Synonyms

• source

More generic

• facility
• installation

More specific

• Golconda
• gold mine
• goldmine

Noun

anything that provides inspiration for later work

Synonyms

• germ
• seed
• source

More generic

• inspiration

More specific

• muse
• taproot

Noun

a document (or organization) from which information is obtained

Synonyms

• source

More generic

• document
• papers
• written document

More specific

• fountainhead
• source materials
• well
• wellspring

Noun

a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to

Synonyms

• reference
• source

More generic

• publication

Noun

the place where something begins, where it springs into being

Synonyms

• beginning
• origin
• root
• rootage
• source

More generic

• point

More specific

• birthplace
• cradle
• derivation
• fountainhead
• head
• headspring
• headwater
• home
• jumping-off place
• place of origin
• point of departure
• point source
• provenance
• provenience
• spring
• trail head
• trailhead
• wellhead
• wellspring

Noun

anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies

Synonyms

• reservoir
• source

More generic

• thing

Noun

someone who originates or causes or initiates something

Synonyms

• author
• generator
• source

More generic

• maker
• shaper

More specific

• coiner

Noun

a person who supplies information

Synonyms

• informant
• source

More generic

• communicator

More specific

• betrayer
• blabber
• informer
• leaker
• passive source
• rat
• squealer
• whistle blower
• whistle-blower
• whistleblower

Noun

(technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system

Synonyms

• source

More generic

• action
• activity
• natural action
• natural process

Opposite / Antonyms

• sink

More specific

• origin

Verb

specify the origin of

Synonyms

• source

More generic

• document

Verb

get (a product) from another country or business

Synonyms

• source

More generic

• obtain

More specific

• outsource

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