Killjoy

Quick meaning: Killjoy is a noun meaning (occasionally endearing, derogatory) A person who is anti-fun, or prevents others from having fun.

Meaning

(occasionally endearing, derogatory) A person who is anti-fun, or prevents others from having fun.

Example Sentences

He stalked behind her simple narrative, a kill-joy parent, hasty, intolerant, keeping a special cane to enforce the authority of his sadistic God[.]

What kill-joy have we here? […] I feel it in my bones some rascal is come to Galing, one that bringeth ill hap in his pocket and a shadow athwart the sun on this our day of festival.

“If you mean me, sir, I call you and every one else to the inspection of my professional life. As to Christian or unchristian, I repudiate your canting palavering Christianity; and as to the way in which I spend my income, it is not my principle to maintain thieves and cheat offspring of their due inheritance in order to support religion and set myself up as a saintly Killjoy....”

Word Forms

• killjoys

Synonyms for killjoy

Depending on context, synonyms include buzzkill, miserabilist, dampener, spoilsport, wet blanket.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include spoilsport, wet blanket, kill-joy, killjoyism, hedonophobia, masochist.

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