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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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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1. Patrick Reilly:

   The Petito family lost their daughter, and they were also denied the opportunity to confront her killer, no amount of money is sufficient to compensate the Petito family for the loss of their daughter, Gabby, at the hands of Brain Laundrie.

2. Patti LuPone:

   Madonna is a movie killer, she's dead behind the eyes. She cannot act her way out of a paper bag.

3. Neama Rahmani:

   Bail reform and COVID delays claim another innocent victim, george Gascon has been largely criticized for the increase in violent crime in Los Angeles. Los Angeles’s time George Gascon stops acting like a defense attorney and allows prosecutors to charge violent felons with sentencing enhancements. George Gascon, the progressive Los Angeles district attorney, has raised the ire of law enforcement and George Gascon own assistant DAs for George Gascon allegedly soft-on-crime policies. Los Angeles POLICE ID Shawn Laval Smith AS SUSPECTED KILLER OF Brianna Kupfer Homicides are up more than 60 % in the City of Los Angeles and over 90 % in Los Angeles, according to records from the LAPD and sheriff’s office. Eric Siddall, the vice president of the Association of Los Angeles Deputy District Attorneys, excoriated Gascon in an essay published to the union’s website this week.

4. Detroit Police Chief James Craig:

   I appreciate our friends in the media for really dispelling a horrible rumor that was circulating across the city that there was a serial killer and that he had dumped five bodies in dumpsters across the city, that was absolutely false, you knew it was false and we only ask that if you didn't hear it from the Detroit Police Department, it's probably not so.

5. Wendy Yoder:

   We had no idea whatsoever that a tick could so something like this, a single tick. We thought it was bad when it just gave you Lyme disease. This one is a killer.