Meanings
plural detractors · alternative obsolete rare detractour
- 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 TelegraphSynonyms: slanderer, libeler, cynic, mudslinger, defamer, critic, backbiter, belittler · Antonyms: proponent, promoter, supporter
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA person who belittles the worth of another person or cause.
More synonyms by meaning
nounone who disparages or belittles the worth of something
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Old Frenchdetractor
- Anglo-Normandetractour
- Middle Englishdetractor
- Englishdetractor
From Middle English detractor, dectractour, from Anglo-Norman detractour, from Old French detractor.
More words from Middle English, Anglo-Norman, Old French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic مُنْتَقِص
- مُنْتَقِص (muntaqiṣ)a person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
Bulgarian злословник
- злословник (zloslovnik)a person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
Chinese Mandarin 毀謗者 /毁谤者, 誹謗者 /诽谤者
- 毀謗者 /毁谤者 (huǐbàngzhě)a person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
- 誹謗者 /诽谤者 (fěibàngzhě)a person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
- 詆毀者 /诋毁者 (dǐhuǐzhě)a person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
- 貶毀者 /贬毁者 (biǎnhuǐzhě)a person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
Czech odpůrce
- odpůrcea person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
Danish bagvasker, nedrakker
- bagvaskera person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
- nedrakkera person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
- kritikera person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
Dutch kritikaster
- kritikastera person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
Finnish vähättelijä
- vähättelijäa person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
French détracteur, détracteuse
- détracteura person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
- détracteusea person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
German Lästerer, Verleumder
- Lästerera person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
- Verleumdera person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
- Lästermaula person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
- Spöttera person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
Greek δυσφημιστής
- δυσφημιστής (dysfimistís)a person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
Hungarian becsmérlő
- becsmérlőa person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
Irish cáinteoir
- cáinteoira person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
Japanese 中傷する人, 誹謗する人
- 中傷する人 (chūshō suru hito)a person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
- 誹謗する人 (hibō suru hito)a person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
Latin dētractor
- dētractora person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
Persian بدگو, عیبجو
- بدگو (bad-gu)a person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
- عیبجو ('eyb-ju)a person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
Russian клеветни́к, клеветни́ца
- клеветни́к (klevetník)a person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
- клеветни́ца (klevetníca)a person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
- очерни́тель (očernítelʹ)a person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
- очерни́тельница (očernítelʹnica)a person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
Spanish detraedor, detractor
- detraedora person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
- detractora person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
Swedish belackare
- belackarea person that belittles the worth of another person or cause
Cite this entry
detractor. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/detractor
“detractor.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/detractor. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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