Antonym for Sizzle

Fizzle.

I thought so too...did you find that as the antonym? The definition for sizzle is:
verb (used without object)
1. to make a hissing sound, as in frying or burning.

2. Informal . to be very hot: It's sizzling out.

3. Informal . to be very angry; harbor deep resentment: I'm still sizzling over that insult.

Fizzle:
verb (used without object)
1. to make a hissing or sputtering sound, especially one that dies out weakly.

2. Informal . to fail ignominiously after a good start (often followed by out ): The reform movement fizzled out because of poor leadership.

I guess the first one for fizzle fits the best. But it seems so like it.
I am overthinking it now I think

I was being a little glib actually.

But I think of sizzle as being fiery and active, while fizzle is dying out/ becoming inactive.

Fizzle is actually the best I have found. Your glibness was right where I was.

Thanks Soz...I think I am just going to go with that one. I guess what bothers me is I could find a definitive answer for every other word but this one.

Maybe a good antonym would be "chill".

It's kind of the opposite of burning, and of very hot.

It also means to not be very angry or resentful.

That makes perfect sense to me.

My husband is telling me I am being ridiculous.

I am sure he is right. He says both chill and fizzle work.

Why didn't I just ask him in the first place?

Thank you both very much.

now you gotta decide who gets the ribbon thingy...

Just to clarify: I wanted the dictionary to give me the antonym like they do the synonym and none of them were doing it. That is why I made such a tempest in a teapot.

I would like to say that this is not the norm for me...

DO NOT PUT ME ON THE SPOT

who was asking you anyway?

just for that, I will take myself out of consideration.

hurry up...

ok,...how about simmer?

Originally I thought about the cold opposite, such as flash freeze...

... but sizzle is about a thermal movement as well as a noise like from cooking.

Maybe the slow barely moving action from simmering a food?

I so totally get the tempest in a teapot syndrome!

Mo sometimes came home with homework and I'd be all WTH is that all about?

I remember one time he had this crossword puzzle to do. I'm really, really good at crossword puzzles. There was one question that had a obvious answer but it didn't fit. He spent forever rereading and trying to find a word that would work, frustrated and in tears. Finally I just told him to fill in the boxes with question marks.

Turns out it was "Oh ha-ha that's a mistake I try to remember to correct ever year."

I think "chill" is better!

yeah! that's it!

Perhaps the fact that none of them were doing it should start you thinking. Puzzlement is often the doorway to discovery.

The point I want to make is that not every word need necessarily have an antonym, in fact many don't. Some things have opposites: hot/cold, long/short, old/new, up/down, noise/silence, plenty/famine, for example. These are pairs of extremes or alternatives. Others do not, and I don't really think that 'sizzle' does. As Wikipedia so conveniently says:

"In lexical semantics, opposites are words that lie in an inherently incompatible binary relationship as in the opposite pairs male : female, long : short, up : down, and precede : follow. The notion of incompatibility here refers to the fact that one word in an opposite pair entails that it is not the other pair member. For example, something that is long entails that it is not short. It is referred to as a 'binary' relationship because there are two members in a set of opposites. The relationship between opposites is known as opposition. A member of a pair of opposites can generally be determined by the question What is the opposite of X ? ... One usage has antonym referring to both gradable opposites, such as long : short, and (non-gradable) complementary opposites, such as male : female"

I don't think that 'sizzle' is in a pair, other than with 'non-sizzle', which is kind of silly.

Have you been set this as an assignment? Maybe the hoped-for outcome is for you to show that you have thought about the question, rather than just ploughed through some dictionaries looking for the 'antonym' sections of definitions.

drizzle.

It's wet, cool, and quiet.

what's another word for thesaurus

McTag

Excellent point, C.

Not to try to steal your thunder but that was my first thought when I read the first post.