detractor
detractor noun: a person who belittles the worth of another person or cause.
Noun
detractor (plural detractors)
- 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
- Synonyms:
- slanderer, libeler, cynic, mudslinger, defamer, critic, backbiter, belittler, calumniator, depreciator
detractor meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
detractor in Tamil
- விரிப்பான், விவரிப்பாளர்
detractor in Urdu
- توجہ ہٹانے والا
detractor in Malayalam
- denigrator, critic, disparager
- വിമർശകൻ, വിമർശി, വിമർശിക്കുന്നവൻ, വിമർശിക്കുന്നയാൾ, നിരൂപകൻ, തെറ്റു കണ്ടുപിടിക്കുന്നവൻ
detractor in Kannada
- ಕುಱುಕುಳಿ
More languagesFewer languages
- detractor in Persian
- بدگو bad-gu, عیبجو 'eyb-ju
Examples of detractor in a sentence
- I saw her whaling away at her detractors.
- Detractors call it a cult of charisma, but the Humanists themselves use aretocracy, rule by excellence.
- The discussion boards and blogsites became battle sites for supporters and detractors of Chaudhry.
Synonyms of detractor
Antonyms
Forms of detractor
| plural | detractors |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete, rare) | detractour |
Origin of detractor
From Middle English detractor, dectractour, from Anglo-Norman detractour, from Old French detractor.
Words formed from detractor
Questions about detractor
- What does detractor mean?
- Detractor means a person who belittles the worth of another person or cause.
- What is detractor in Tamil?
- Detractor in Tamil is விரிப்பான், விவரிப்பாளர். See Detractor meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is detractor?
- Detractor is a noun.
- What is the plural of detractor?
- The plural of detractor is detractors.
Words near detractor in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: detractor (page history and authors); detractor (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); detractor (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); detractor (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); detractor (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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