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語源

From 中期英語 detractor, dectractour, from Anglo-Norman detractour, from Old French detractor.

発音

名詞

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:

     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.

派生語

アナグラム

• tractored

名詞

dētractor m (genitive dētractōris); third declension

1. detractor, disparager

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

動詞

dētractor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of dētractō

参照

• “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.