detractor

noun

Etymology

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

  1. derived from detractor
  2. derived from detractour
  3. inherited from detractor

Definitions

  1. 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for detractor. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA