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detractor
English
Alternative forms
- detractour (obsolete, rare)
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman detractour, from Old French detractor.
Noun
detractor (plural detractors)
- 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)[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.
- 2012, Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world (in The Daily Telegraph, 15 November 2012)[1]
Synonyms
- slanderer
- libeler
- cynic
- mudslinger
- defamer
Antonyms
- proponent
- supporter
Translations
Anagrams
- tractored
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /de??trak.tor/, [d?e??t??äkt??r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /de?trak.tor/, [d???t???kt??r]
Noun
d?tractor m (genitive d?tract?ris); third declension
- detractor, disparager
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Verb
d?tractor
- first-person singular present passive indicative of d?tract?
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
- detractor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Romanian
Etymology
From French détracteur
Noun
detractor m (plural detractori)
- detractor
Declension
Spanish
Noun
detractor m (plural detractores, feminine detractora, feminine plural detractoras)
- detractor
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detractory
English
Etymology
From Latin d?tract?rius, from d?tractor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??t?ækt??i/
Adjective
detractory (comparative more detractory, superlative most detractory)
- (now rare) That detracts from something; disparaging, depreciatory.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.5:
- For this is not only derogatory unto the wisdom of God, who hath proposed the World unto out knowledge, and thereby the notion of Himself; but also detractory unto the intellect, and sense of man expressedly disposed for that inquisition.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.5:
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