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wet blanket

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Synonyms and Antonyms of wet blanket

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

Synonyms of wet blanket

drag, grinch, killjoy, party pooper, spoilsport

Words Related to wet blanket

fuddy-duddy, goody-goody, Goody Two-shoes, old maid, stick-in-the-mud

defeatist, Jeremiah, knocker, pessimist

complainer, crab, cynic, grouch, grump, sorehead, sourpuss, whiner

bore, downer, drip

Near Antonyms of wet blanket

cutup, jester, live wire

carouser, celebrant, celebrator, merrymaker, rejoicer, reveler (or reveller), roisterer

libertine, playboy, playgirl, rake

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