Thesaurus:spoilsport
English
Noun
Sense: one who prevents others from having fun
Synonyms
Archetypes
- Buzz Killington (humorous)
- Debbie Downer
Antonyms
- life and soul of the party (idiomatic)
- life of the party (idiomatic)
- live wire (idiomatic)
- party animal (idiomatic)
Hypernyms
Various
- busybody
- dampener (figuratively)
- damper (figuratively)
- passion killer (British)
- pedant [⇒ thesaurus]
- prude [⇒ thesaurus]
- rain on one's parade
- fly in the ointment (idiomatic)
- turd in the punchbowl (vulgar, idiomatic)
See also
Further reading
- “706. hindrance” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “spoilsport” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.