detractor

English

Alternative forms

• detractour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

detract +‎ -or

Noun

detractor (plural detractors)

1. A person who belittles the worth of another person or cause.
   • 2012, Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world (in The Daily Telegraph, 15 November 2012)[1]

     Four polite Englishmen in their middle 20s, feigning like firewater drunks in a Eugene O'Neill play: it's exactly the stuff that makes their detractors groan.

Synonyms

• slanderer
• libeler
• cynic
• mudslinger
• defamer

Antonyms

• proponent
• supporter

Translations

a person that belittles the worth of another person or cause

• Bulgarian: злословник (bg) (zloslovnik) m
• Czech: odpůrce (cs) m

• Finnish: vähättelijä
• French: détracteur m détracteuse f

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Latin

Noun

dētractor (genitive dētractōris); m, third declension

1. detractor, disparager

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	dētractor	dētractōrēs
genitive	dētractōris	dētractōrum
dative	dētractōrī	dētractōribus
accusative	dētractōrem	dētractōrēs
ablative	dētractōre	dētractōribus
vocative	dētractor	dētractōrēs

Verb

dētractor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of dētractō