emergers

Those coming up

Emergers are people or things that emerge—coming forth, rising up, or becoming visible after being hidden or dormant.

The term appears in discussions of developing economies, new technologies, or social movements: The emergers in the tech sector are disrupting established players.

It can also describe individuals rising from obscurity or difficulty: She counted herself among the emergers from poverty.

newcomers

rising stars

Emerging promising talents

fledglings · novices · entrants · debutants · new arrivals · first-timers · neophytes · apprentices · trainees · recruits

growth

sprouts

New growth from seeds

shoots · germinating · blooming · flourishing · budding · ripening · unfolding · developing · maturing · blossoming

breakthrough

pioneers

First to explore territory

game-changers · groundbreakers · pathfinders · visionaries · first movers · trendsetters · revolutionaries · mavericks · originals · iconoclasts

potential

promising

Showing signs of success

bright · prodigious · exceptional · remarkable · skilled · able · proficient · precocious · apt · endowed

Opposites
vertical movement direction

emergerssubmergers

Those who plunge underwater

divers · sinkers · plungers · descenders · dunkers

visibility/appearance

emergershiders

Those who stay unseen

concealers · vanishers · disappearers · retreaters · withdrawers

developmental trajectory

emergersdecliners

Those who refuse offers

faders · has-beens · falling stars · fallers · dinosaurs

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