Wet Blanket

Definition: Wet Blanket

Wet Blanket

Noun

1. (informal) someone who spoils the pleasure of others.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Wet Blanket

Dejection

Affliction; sorry sight; memento mori; damper, wet blanket, Job's comforter.

Dissuasion

Discouragement, damper, wet blanket; disillusionment, disenchantment.

Dullness

Render dull; Adjective: damp, depress, throw cold water on, lay a wet blanket on; fall flat upon the ear.

Hindrance

Thwart, frustrate, disconcert, balk, foil; faze, feaze, feeze; baffle, snub, override, circumvent; defeat; spike guns; (render useless); spoil, mar, clip the wings of; cripple; (injure); put an extinguisher on; damp; dishearten; (dissuade); discountenance, throw cold water on, spoil sport; lay a wet blanket, throw a wet blanket on; cut the ground from under one, take the wind out of one's sails, undermine; be in the way of, stand in the way of; act as a drag; hang like a millstone round one's neck.

Damper, wet blanket, hinderer, marplot, killjoy; party pooper; party crasher, interloper.

Insulation, Fire extinction

Wet blanket; fire extinguisher, soda and acid extinguisher, dry chemical extinguisher, CO-two extinguisher, carbon tetrachloride, foam; sprinklers, automatic sprinkler system; fire bucket, sand bucket.

Moderation

Tranquilize, pacify, assuage, appease, swag, lull, soothe, compose, still, calm, calm down, cool, quiet, hush, quell, sober, pacify, tame, damp, lay, allay, rebate, slacken, smooth, alleviate, rock to sleep, deaden, smooth, throw cold water on, throw a wet blanket over, turn off; slake; curb; (restrain); tame; (subjugate); smooth over; pour oil on the waves, pour oil on the troubled waters; pour balm into, mattre de l'eau dans son vin.

Measure, juste milieu, golden mean, gr/ariston metron/gr moderator; lullaby, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, antispasmodic, carminative, laudanum; rose water, balm, poppy, opiate, anodyne, milk, opium, "poppy or mandragora"; wet blanket; palliative.

Weariness

Bore, buttonholer, proser, wet blanket; pill, stiff; heavy hours, "the enemy".

Crosswords: Wet Blanket

She's just being a wet blanket. (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "wet blanket": A wet blanket ♦ lay a wet blanket on. Additional references.

Albanian

ters njeri, prishës humori. (various references)

Arabic 

‏المفسد للبهجة, ‏المثبط للهمة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

развалям удоволствието на, поливам със студена вода. (various references)

French

rabat-joie. (various references)

German

spaßverderber (killjoy, spoilsport). (various references)

Greek 

απαισιόδοξοσ (pessimist), αποθαρύνω. (various references)

Hebrew 

מרפ�" י�"ים, עוכר שמח�" (party pooper, spoilsport). (various references)

Hungarian

lehût (chill, cool, cool down, refrigerate), lecsillapít (appease, calm down, hush, quell, quiet down, reconcile, to appease, to assuage, to calm, to mollify, to quell, to reconcile, to salve, to smooth, to stroke down, to tranquillize, tranquillize). (various references)

Italian

guastafeste (damper, killjoy, killjoys, marplot, skeleton at the feast, spoilsport). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

興�'め (kill-joy), 興�'し (kill-joy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きょうざまし (a wet blanket, kill-joy, spoiling the fun), きょうざめ (being wet-blanketed, kill-joy, skeleton at the feast). (various references)

Pig Latin

etway anketblay

Russian 

отравляющий удовольствие, обескураживать (damp, daunt, discourage, dishearten, wet-blanket). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

obeshrabriti (daunt, deject, depress, discourage, dishearten, pour cold water on), mokro ćebe, gasiti mokrim ćebetom. (various references)

Spanish

aguafiestas (killjoy, killjoys, misery, party pooper, skeleton at the feast, spoilsport). (various references)

Swedish

glädjedödare (damper, kill-joy, spoilsport). (various references)

Turkish

oyunbozan (spoilsport, wowser), neşe kaçıran (ungenial). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: nettable, wettable.

-3 letters: betaken, blanket, kantele, tenable.

-4 letters: alkene, anklet, atween, baleen, batten, battle, beaten, betake, enable, kettle, knawel, lateen, latent, latten, nettle, tablet, talent, telnet, wattle, weaken.

-5 letters: abele, akene, anele, ankle, betel, betta, blank, blate, blawn, bleak, bleat, blent, eaten, elate, enate, kneel, knelt, laten, latke, latte, leant, leben, newel, table, taken.