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
   • Dolphin
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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. Miguel Angel Lamas Arellano:

   I am not a criminal, i am not a murderer. I am not a killer. When I look at my charges, we are talking about a murderer, which is not me. I have never thought about hurting anybody in my entire life.

2. Nicolas Martin, www.iatrogenic.org:

   The headline reads, "Docs say patients make them prescribe useless antibiotics." This puts a physician in roughly the same predicament as a serial killer. The latter says, "Stop me before I kill again, while the former says, "Stop me before I prescribe again."

3. Cam Newton:

   It shouldn't have been a thriller, I can tell you that, it was great to be in a game like this. It was kind of like our first dose of what playoff football is going to be about. We've got to create that killer instinct. We have to be better, and we will be better.

4. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall:

   Tonight, the family of Pastor Bill Lynn, who was brutally murdered nearly 30 years ago, has finally seen Lynn's killer face justice.

5. Dontae Sharpe:

   I'm free now, and the burden of carrying around that felony reputation of being a killer or murder, it was gone, my family name has been cleared. Man, you know, it feels good.