blanket

1. 1.

   cover as if with a blanket

   “snow blanketed the fields”

   Broadercover
2. 2.

   form a blanket-like cover (over)

   Broadercover

1. 1.

   broad in scope or content

   “across-the-board pay increases”

   “an all-embracing definition”

   “blanket sanctions against human-rights violators”

   “an invention with broad applications”

   “a panoptic study of Soviet nationality”

   “granted him wide powers”

   Synonymsacross-the-boardall-embracingall-encompassingall-inclusivebroadencompassingextensivepanopticwide

   Similarcomprehensive

Other forms of blanket

plural

blankets·

past tense

blanketted·

present participle

blanketting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about blanket

What does blanket mean?

blanket means "bedding that keeps a person warm in bed". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blanket?

blanket has 2 syllables: blan-ket. The stress falls on "blan". In IPA it is /ˈblæŋkət/.

What is another word for blanket?

Close synonyms include cover, mantle, across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blanket a common word?

blanket is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.