Synonyms of detractor

detractor

noun

as in critic

a person who criticizes something or someone

Despite his popularity, his many detractors still think his work is overrated.

Even her detractors had to admit that she had made the company successful.

Related Words

• critic
• criticizer
• scoffer
• insulter
• scorner
• mocker
• derider
• tormentor
• heckler
• harasser
• taunter
• denigrator
• jeerer
• giber
• decrier
• needler
• belittler
• persecutor
• nitpicker
• knocker
• baiter
• faultfinder
• tease
• censurer
• ridiculer
• teaser
• disparager
• carper
• castigator
• caviler
• hypercritic
• niggler

Dissimilar Words

• praiser
• comforter
• solace
• champion
• soother
• bodyguard
• commender
• succorer

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of detractor

The third ingredient is the capitalization of future monetary demand – what detractors might call speculation, but is really just the way investment works. — Dave Birnbaum, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026

Even if their worst detractors considered Les Lalanne mere decor collected by socialites, the support of famous people was helpful in their careers. — Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 21 Aug. 2026

Other detractors have compared the uniform to Vanderbilt and Colorado, two gold and black programs that Nike also outfits. — Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 20 Aug. 2026

Aside from anxieties that the watermark is merely a red herring, an easy-to-evade compliance strategy, some watermark detractors fear that these statistical signatures will make chatbots worse at writing. — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2026

But criticism of the outdoor dining arrangements built up, with detractors saying the spots were unsightly, dirty, and harboring rats. — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026

Some detractors even characterized it as a concentration camp. — The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2026

Nvidia 's extraordinary $500 billion financing initiative with Wall Street's biggest firms to fund the AI buildout is predictably attracting detractors. — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2026

Journalist Sebastian Mallaby spent three years chronicling Hassabis and DeepMind, logging about 30 hours with the man himself and interviewing those in his orbit – including his detractors. — Monitor Reviewers, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Aug. 2026