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well-spring
noun as in inception
noun as in mine
noun as in oasis
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in origin
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in parent
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in source
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in spring
noun as in well
noun as in fount
Strongest match
noun as in provenience
Strong matches
- agent
- ancestor
- ancestry
- antecedent
- author
- base
- beginning
- causality
- causation
- connection
- creator
- derivation
- determinant
- egg
- element
- embryo
- fount
- fountain
- fountainhead
- generator
- germ
- impulse
- inception
- inducement
- influence
- inspiration
- mainspring
- mother
- motive
- nucleus
- occasion
- parent
- parentage
- principle
- producer
- progenitor
- provenance
- root
- roots
- rootstock
- seed
- source
- spring
- stock
- well
- wellspring
Weak match
noun as in rootstock
Strong matches
- agent
- ancestor
- ancestry
- antecedent
- author
- base
- beginning
- causality
- causation
- connection
- creator
- derivation
- determinant
- egg
- element
- embryo
- fount
- fountain
- fountainhead
- generator
- germ
- impulse
- inception
- inducement
- influence
- inspiration
- mainspring
- mother
- motive
- nucleus
- occasion
- parent
- parentage
- principle
- producer
- progenitor
- provenance
- provenience
- root
- roots
- seed
- source
- spring
- stock
- well
- wellspring
Weak match
noun as in cradle
Strongest match
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in derivation
noun as in fountain
noun as in fountainhead
noun as in inception
noun as in mine
noun as in oasis
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in origin
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in parent
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in source
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in spring
noun as in well
noun as in fount
Strongest match
noun as in provenience
Strong matches
- agent
- ancestor
- ancestry
- antecedent
- author
- base
- beginning
- causality
- causation
- connection
- creator
- derivation
- determinant
- egg
- element
- embryo
- fount
- fountain
- fountainhead
- generator
- germ
- impulse
- inception
- inducement
- influence
- inspiration
- mainspring
- mother
- motive
- nucleus
- occasion
- parent
- parentage
- principle
- producer
- progenitor
- provenance
- root
- roots
- rootstock
- seed
- source
- spring
- stock
- well
- wellspring
Weak match
noun as in rootstock
Strong matches
- agent
- ancestor
- ancestry
- antecedent
- author
- base
- beginning
- causality
- causation
- connection
- creator
- derivation
- determinant
- egg
- element
- embryo
- fount
- fountain
- fountainhead
- generator
- germ
- impulse
- inception
- inducement
- influence
- inspiration
- mainspring
- mother
- motive
- nucleus
- occasion
- parent
- parentage
- principle
- producer
- progenitor
- provenance
- provenience
- root
- roots
- seed
- source
- spring
- stock
- well
- wellspring
Weak match
noun as in cradle
Strongest match
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in derivation
noun as in fountain
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Example Sentences
Out of the heart are the issues of life, and within, it is life's well-spring.
Even in this hour He is the well-spring of joy, for then He nailed our debt of sin to the cross.
But the well-spring of this sorrow and weeping was not in the crucified Christ.
Beside such a tall gum-tree Samson Hat reined in, where a well-spring shone at the bottom of a hollow cypress.
With the opening of her blue eyes upon my face, a well-spring deep as my unfathomable longing, bubbled up within my breast.
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On this page you'll find 498 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to well spring, such as: initiation, outset, birth, commencement, dawn, and derivation.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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