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killjoy

US/ˈkɪlˌd͡ʒɔɪ/

killjoy noun: a person who is anti-fun, or prevents others from having fun.

Noun

killjoy (plural killjoys)

  1. (derogatory, occasionally endearing) A person who is anti-fun, or prevents others from having fun.
    • “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...1871, George Eliot, Middlemarch
    • 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.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 7

killjoy meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

killjoy in Malayalam

spoilsport, prophet of doom, wet blanket
രസംകൊല്ലി, രസം നശിപ്പിക്കുന്നവൻ, നീരസികൻ, സ്വർഗ്ഗത്തിലെ കട്ടുറുമ്പ്, ദോഷെെകദൃക്ക്, ഛിദ്രദർശി

killjoy in Kannada

ಸಂತೋಷನಾಶಕ, ಉತ್ಸಾಹವನ್ನು ನಾಶ ಮಾಡುವವ, ಆನಂದಾಪಹಾರಕ, ಹರ್ಷಹಂತಕ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ

Synonyms of killjoy

All synonyms of killjoy

Forms of killjoy

pluralkilljoys
alternative formKJ

Origin of killjoy

From kill + joy, first attested in 1776.

Words formed from killjoy

Words that rhyme with killjoy

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Questions about killjoy

What does killjoy mean?
Killjoy means a person who is anti-fun, or prevents others from having fun.
What is killjoy in Malayalam?
Killjoy in Malayalam is രസംകൊല്ലി, രസം നശിപ്പിക്കുന്നവൻ, നീരസികൻ. See Killjoy meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is killjoy?
Killjoy is a noun.
How do you pronounce killjoy?
Killjoy is pronounced /ˈkɪlˌd͡ʒɔɪ/ (US).
What is the plural of killjoy?
The plural of killjoy is killjoys.

Words near killjoy in the dictionary

  1. Killingworths
  2. Killinick
  3. killinite
  4. killion
  5. killions
  6. killjoy
  7. killjoyism
  8. killjoys
  9. Killke
  10. Killman
  11. Killmer

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: killjoy (page history and authors); killjoy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); killjoy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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