detractor

• detractour (obsolete, rare)

From Middle English detractor, dectractour, from Anglo-Norman detractour, from Old French detractor.

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detractor (plural detractors)

1. A person who belittles the worth of another person or cause.

   Synonyms: slanderer, libeler, cynic, mudslinger, defamer, critic

   Antonyms: proponent, promoter, supporter

   • 2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, The Daily Telegraph‎^[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.

• tractored

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deːˈtrak.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪eˈt̪rak.t̪or]

dētractor m (genitive dētractōris); third declension

1. detractor, disparager

Third-declension noun.

dētractor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of dētractō

• “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
• detractor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from French détracteur.

detractor m (plural detractori)

1. detractor

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• IPA^(key): /detɾaɡˈtoɾ/ [d̪e.t̪ɾaɣ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: de‧trac‧tor

detractor m (plural detractores, feminine detractora, feminine plural detractoras)

1. detractor

• “detractor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024