wet blanket

Questions about wet blanket

What is another word for wet blanket?

It depends which wet blanket you mean. In the sense “someone who spoils the pleasure of others”, the synonyms are spoilsport, killjoy, party pooper. Across all 1 sense there are 3 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 wet blanket?

WordNet records no antonym for wet blanket. 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 wet blanket 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 wet blanket

• Full entry for wet blanketAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for wet blanketWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.