Proponent vs Detractor - What's the difference?
proponent | detractor | Antonyms |
One who supports something; an advocate
* 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/sports/new-york-city-marathon-will-not-be-held-sunday.html?hp&_r=0]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):
Making proposals; proposing.
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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-world]
Detractor is a antonym of proponent.
As nouns the difference between proponent and detractor
is that proponent is one who supports something; an advocate while detractor is a person who belittles the worth of another person or cause.As an adjective proponent
is making proposals; proposing.proponent
English
Noun
(en noun)- Proponents of the race — notably Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Mary Wittenberg, director of the marathon — said the event would provide a needed morale boost, as well as an economic one.
Synonyms
* exponentAntonyms
* detractor * opponentAdjective
(-)detractor
English
Alternative forms
* detractour (qualifier)Noun
(en noun)- 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.