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detester

detester noun: someone who detests, a hater.

Noun

detester (plural detesters)

  1. Someone who detests, a hater.
    • I exclaimed, with sparkling eyes and a rapturous accent, "you are not profligate; are a stranger to the manners of this house, and a detester of these manners?1889, Charles Brockden Brown, Arthur Mervyn
    • In a short time a jealous feud sprang up between the loving friends Rinaldo and Orlando; and Angelica, torn with conflicting emotions, from her dread on her father's account as well as her own, and her aversion to every knight but her detester, was at one time compelled to apply to Orlando for...1846, Leigh Hunt, Stories from the Italian Poets= With Lives of the Writers, Vol. 2

Forms of detester

pluraldetesters

Origin of detester

From detest + -er.

Questions about detester

What does detester mean?
Detester means someone who detests, a hater.
What part of speech is detester?
Detester is a noun.
What is the plural of detester?
The plural of detester is detesters.

Words near detester in the dictionary

  1. detestate
  2. detestates
  3. detestation
  4. detestations
  5. detested
  6. detester
  7. detesters
  8. detestest
  9. detesteth
  10. detesting
  11. detests

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