Detractor
Alternative forms
- detractour obsolete, rare
Origin
From Anglo-Norman detractour, from Old French detractor.
Full definition of 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)http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/nov/15/mumford-sons-biggest-band-worldFour 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.