detective

Speech parts

1. detective - Noun

2. detective - Adjective

Meaning

Fitted for, or skilled in, detecting; employed in detecting crime or criminals; as, a detective officer.

One who business it is so detect criminals or discover matters of secrecy.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

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Antonyms

bandit peterman prowler offender perpetrator figurehead
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Hypernyms

investigator police officer human individual person animal

Hyponyms

sherlock dick sleuth operative tracer pi

Phrases with the word

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Examples

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. Arthur C. Clarke

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective. John Buchan

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. Agatha Christie

The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of mind that can produce an artistic job of writing. Raymond Chandler

The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective. Raymond Chandler

You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off. Raymond Chandler

Close letter words and terms

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