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Default antonym of harbinger

i wnt one wrd for its antonym,rem that the wrd harbinger carries a negative sense
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Default Re: antonym of harbinger

Welcome, abhi.

harbinger doesn't carry a negative sense. It's the nouns it modifies that makes it so (e.g., the harbinger of absenteeism, depression;a harbinger of impending doom!) or the reader already has a negative sense of the topic.

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... an awareness of and an ability to work with ambiguity is to my mind one of the harbingers of higher intelligence ...

They crushed Netscape - the harbinger of browsers.

Second, the warbler, another harbinger of spring, sings among the boughs of plum ...

synonym: precursor
antonym: follow, follower
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muggle?
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hi! abhi....

Actually, the word harbinger doesn't have any negative sense because this word means an indication of the approach of something or someone.

Antonyms.. follower, supporter
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