Synonyms for killer
ˈkɪl ərkiller

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1. killernoun

   Excellent, very good.

   Synonyms:
   murderer, assassin

2. killernoun

   A diacritic mark used in Indic scripts to suppress an inherent vowel (e.g., the Hindi viram, the Bengali or Oriya hasanta) or render the entire syllable silent (e.g., the Burmese virama, the Khmer toandakhiat).

   Synonyms:
   vowel killer, halant, virama

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. killer, slayernoun

   someone who causes the death of a person or animal

   Synonyms:
   orca, killer whale, grampus, sea wolf, cause of death, slayer

2. cause of death, killernoun

   the causal agent resulting in death

   "heart disease is the biggest killer in the United States"

   Synonyms:
   slayer, orca, killer whale, grampus, sea wolf, cause of death

3. killernoun

   a difficulty that is hard to deal with

   "that exam was a real killer"

   Synonyms:
   orca, killer whale, grampus, sea wolf, cause of death, slayer

4. killer whale, killer, orca, grampus, sea wolf, Orcinus orcanoun

   predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas

   Synonyms:
   cause of death, slayer, killer whale, grampus, sea wolf, orca

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1. • Difficulty
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Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. killernoun

   Synonyms:
   slayer, murderer, butcher, assassin, assassinator, executor, destroyer

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:2.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "killer":

   murderer, assassin, slayer, unsub, kiiler, shooter, deadly, hitter, sharkslayer, gunfighter, hitman, fatal, doer, gunman

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How to use killer in a sentence?

1. Kumiko Love:

   I call the food budget the silent killer of budgets.

2. The FBI:

   The Zodiac Killer case remains open. We have no new information to share at the moment.

3. Jeff Melvoin:

   You think Nature is some Disney movie Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain.

4. Raag Singhal:

   What's ’ interesting in the Aileen Wuornos case, and it’s a highly unusual case, is if you were to talk to the public and say ‘ This is a serial killer who was executed, ’ I don’t think anyone would lose sleep over it. The things the public typically looks at are whether they have confidence in the defendant's guilt and whether they got due process. The third thing is whether the defendant was treated consistently with those who acted similarly, it’s a strange concept when you’re talking about those who acted similarly and you’re talking about a serial killer.

5. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine:

   They are providing some technical expertise. We're not going to talk about exactly what they are doing, we do not want to give the killer or killers any indication of where this investigation is going.