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

The world may also know her as her drag persona, MX Kiki Krunch.

— Sooji Nam, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
With competition so fierce in the race to build and release the latest AI models however, the expediency of shaving off every possible drag on speed trumps all.

— Emily Forlini, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of drag

Noun

Such fraudulence bore only poisoned fruit, swelling overseas bank accounts for the Manchurian candidates who were seeding duplicity into the loam of their nation’s imagination.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2026
Female flies bore into the fig to lay their eggs, which hatch out as larvae inside the fruit and eat the unripe insides before burrowing their way out.

— Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 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

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
Trump’s insistence on lower rates isn’t helping matters, and cynics argue that Warsh doesn’t want to make the president angry.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 30 July 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