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 Regardless, the new hard-line stance on playing time was a wet blanket tossed onto an overachieving team. — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for wet blanket

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Noun

Americans are anxious about the economy, their own finances and the world in general — but none of that has been too much of a drag on consumer spending this year.

— David Moin, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026
The result of this thin layer of turbulence is skin-friction drag.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of drag

Noun

Then, the very next day, Mars will march into the courageous sign of Leo, trading the crab’s defensive and hyper-protective instincts for bold self-expression and a whole lot of swag!

— Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2026
Earlier this year, more than a hundred thousand bots joined a social network, Moltbook, and, within seventy-two hours, created a religion called Crustafarianism, which came to involve the worship of crabs.

— Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of crab

Noun

For Naowarat Supanikorn, a 55-year-old maid who shares a single-story house with three dogs and six cats, the flooding was more than an inconvenience.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Sep. 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

Williams led the Bears to an NFC North title and a playoff victory last season, but some cynics think the Bears are due for a regression this season.

— Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
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

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

Definition of spoilsport

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