Antonyms for blanket
ˈblæŋ kɪtblan·ket

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   • Cover
   • Covering

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1. blanket, covernoun

   bedding that keeps a person warm in bed

   "he pulled the covers over his head and went to sleep"

   Antonyms:
   noncomprehensive, incomprehensive

   Synonyms:
   cover charge, screen, covering, cover version, covering fire, binding, covert, natural covering, cover song, concealment, top, masking, back, cover, mantle, screening, book binding

2. blanket, mantlenoun

   anything that covers

   "there was a blanket of snow"

   Antonyms:
   incomprehensive, noncomprehensive

   Synonyms:
   pallium, cover, pall, mantle, mantel, cape, mantelpiece, curtain, mantlepiece, drape, chimneypiece, drapery

3. blanketadjective

   a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor

   Antonyms:
   noncomprehensive, incomprehensive

   Synonyms:
   cover, mantle

4. across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket(a), broad, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wideverb

   broad in scope or content

   "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers"

   Antonyms:
   incomprehensive, noncomprehensive

5. blanketverb

   cover as if with a blanket

   "snow blanketed the fields"

   Antonyms:
   noncomprehensive, incomprehensive

6. blanketverb

   form a blanket-like cover (over)

   Antonyms:
   incomprehensive, noncomprehensive

How to use blanket in a sentence?

1. Mark Twain:

   His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.

2. Hillary Clinton on Friday:

   The fight against the NRA should be led by a new organization of gun owners, there is really no other industry in America that has this kind of blanket permission to be reckless to be negligent.

3. Jane Harley:

   Given that our editorial guidelines that reference pigs and pork have been in place for as long as I can remember, little did I imagine that they would attract international headlines claiming that Oxford University Press had banned sausages, to clarify, OUP does not have a blanket ban on pork products in its titles, and we do still publish books about pigs.

4. Michael Dellegrazie:

   I was very careful that the handoff was done cleanly, so I opened the first garbage bag and in that I discovered something that shocked me. ... It was a blanket that was full of blood.

5. The ICS Stawpert:

   If there was to be a blanket ban on 'beaching' there would be a very, very serious capacity problem because there is nowhere else big enough to deal with it at the moment.

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