English

Alternative forms

• detractour (obsolete, rare)

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)

     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

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /deːˈtrak.tor/, [deːˈtrak.tɔr]

Noun

dētractor m ‎(genitive dētractōris); third declension

1. detractor, disparager

Inflection

Third declension.

Verb

dētractor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of dētractō

References

• detractor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• detractor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “detractor”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Spanish

Noun

detractor m ‎(plural detractores, feminine detractora)

1. detractor