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detracter

detracter is the alternative form of detractor.

Meaning of detractor

Noun

detractor (plural detractors)

  1. A person who belittles the worth of another person or cause.
    • 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.2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, The Daily Telegraph

Forms of detracter

pluraldetracters

Questions about detracter

What is detracter the alternative form of?
Detracter is the alternative form of detractor.

Words near detracter in the dictionary

  1. detracking
  2. detracks
  3. detract
  4. detractable
  5. detracted
  6. detracter
  7. detracters
  8. detractest
  9. detracteth
  10. detracting
  11. detractingly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: detracter (page history and authors); detractor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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