WET BLANKET Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

wet blanket

noun

Definition of wet blanket

as in drag

a person who spoils the pleasure of others I'd love to go to the party, but with my cold, I'm afraid I'd just be a wet blanket

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Recent Examples of wet blanket Aleksander Barkov has covered him like a wet blanket at times, showcasing the two-way prowess that just earned him his third Selke Trophy. — Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 16 June 2025 But the rivalry between these teams runs deep, and the Penguins tried hard to throw a wet blanket on the Capitals' playoff hopes and Ovechkin's big day. — CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026 Both dynamics are pretty well-worn from the first four seasons of the series, and there isn't much value to turning both Hopper and Joyce into wet blankets at this moment of ultimate crisis. — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 27 Nov. 2025 It’s stated routinely in my upcoming book The Deficit Delusion that the centralized and politicized allocation of goods, services and labor in sub-optimal fashion by politicians lays a wet blanket on economic growth. — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for wet blanket

Recent Examples of Synonyms for wet blanket

Noun

Tech giant Samsung was a drag on the overall market, with shares falling despite reporting a record preliminary second-quarter operating profit.

— Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 7 July 2026
The Monster Jam Monster Motors Rev Up Raceway Playset lets kids experience the thrill of side-by-side drag racing in toy form.

— Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026

Definition of drag

Noun

As rain drizzled and the humidity bore down, the president peered at blueprints for the public golf course, before driving to his own course in Virginia via the Arlington Memorial Bridge, near where his Triumphal Arch may soon be built.

— Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 3 July 2026
Breaking it down by item type, 80 percent of scarves 54 percent of tops, 25 percent of baby clothing, 13 percent of activewear and 14 percent of sleep wear bore inaccurate labels.

— Jennifer Bringle, Footwear News, 25 June 2026

Definition of bore

Noun

March 2026 Prose's debut novel is centered around Molly Gray, a 25-year-old maid at the Regency Grand Hotel, a five-star boutique hotel, who has an obsessive love of cleaning and proper etiquette.

— Angeline Jane Bernabe, ABC News, 3 Mar. 2026
These ajummas, these old maids, with their curly hair, were actually doing this!

— Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 17 Feb. 2026

Definition of old maid

Noun

The native New Yorker has won over cynics before, his peers tell Fortune.

— Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 3 July 2026
Not everyone is happy about this apparently, as large portions of cynics and haters on social media are apparently ready to say auf wiedersehen to Freddy.

— Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026

Definition of cynic

Noun

The first thing Sweetpea does, after ditching her spoilsport colleague at the hotel, is pay a visit to SwiftGC, a payment processor recently acquired by Tender.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 6 Feb. 2026
Granted, this might simply be an old-fashioned spoilsport way to view the market.

— Michael Santoli, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2026