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 This approach isn’t about throwing a wet blanket on the festivities of the season. — Monitor Staff, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2025 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 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 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

What’s striking is that these drag classes are happening in the kind of English seaside town that voted strongly for Brexit – and where, in the decade since, the hard-right Reform UK has become a major political force.

— Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
The toe-drag was so precise that officials initially ruled the catch incomplete before reversing the call after Reid’s challenge.

— Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of drag

Noun

More specifically, insects are invertebrates (animals without backbones) and are part of the arthropod phylum, which also includes spiders, crabs, and centipedes.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026
He's garnered more than 3 million followers from his content promoting the crab industry.

— Brittney Melton, NPR, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of crab

Noun

The bore heading eastbound into Chinatown will close for about seven months, with one lane of traffic open in each direction in the other bore.

— Sooji Nam, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026
Many of the green packages bore stickers featuring the soccer star, who plays as a striker for Manchester City and the Norwegian national team.

— Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 13 Aug. 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

That the earnestness the genre requires galls us cynics, who love to hide in our books, away from all those pesky bodies in the first place?

— Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2026
Questions about whose interests Infantino is serving have developed beyond average cynics who tend to suspect this type of thing.

— Simon Hughes, New York Times, 1 Aug. 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