Word Meanings - SUBSTRACTOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who subtracts. 2. A detractor; a slanderer. Shak.

Related words: (words related to SUBSTRACTOR)

• SLANDERER
  One who slanders; a defamer; a calumniator. Jer. Taylor.
• DETRACTOR
  One who detracts; a derogator; a defamer. His detractors were noisy and scurrilous. Macaulay. Syn. -- Slanderer; calumniator; defamer; vilifier.
• DETRACTORY
  Defamatory by denial of desert; derogatory; calumnious. Sir T. Browne.