Synonyms for kill-joy
- noun
Most common
All synonyms
Noun
joy killer, fun police informal, wet blanket, craic killer UK IE, fun sponge informal, spoilsport, party pooper informal, downer, grinch, dampener, wowser AU NZ, mar-all dated, buzzkill slang, miserabilist rare
Definitions
- n. 1
A person who is anti-fun, or prevents others from having fun.
Related words
- Other spellings
- killjoy
Forms
- Plural
- kill-joys → spoilsports, downers, grinches, dampeners…
Example sentences
- downer I was sort of expecting it, but it was still a bit of a downer.
- grinch We got a 1.5 meter high grinch tree from mom.
By length
- 6 letters
- downer2, grinch1, wowser
- 8 letters
- buzzkill, dampener
- 10 letters
- spoilsport
- 12 letters
- miserabilist
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (downer2 = 2 syllables).