throw cold water on

Questions about throw cold water on

What is another word for throw cold water on?

It depends which throw cold water on you mean. In the sense “be discouraging or negative about”, the synonyms are pour cold water on. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of throw cold water on?

WordNet records no antonym for throw cold water on. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for throw cold water on come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of throw cold water on

• Full entry for throw cold water onAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for throw cold water onWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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