killer

The word “killer” has 2 syllables: kill-er

It's pronounced as /ˈkɪl.ər/

What is synonym and antonym for killer?

In the thesaurus, “killer” has 156 synonyms and 50 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for killer along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for killer

Augean
abstract
abstruse
annoying
arduous
assassin
backbreaking
baleful
baneful
bear
beast
bloody
bother
bothersome
bravo
bruising
brutal
burden
burdensome
butcher
challenging
chore
complex
complicated
cruel
cut-throat
cutthroat
dangerous
deadly
deathly
deleterious
demanding
destructive
difficult
distressing
drudgery
effort
effortful
elusive
exacting
executioner
exhausting
exterminator
fatal
fell
formidable
grave
grievous
grim
grind
grueling
gruelling
gunperson
hairy
hard
harmful
hazardous
headache
heavy
heavy lifting
hellacious
herculean
hit man
hit person
hit woman
homicide
hunter
infectious
infective
inhuman
injurious
insoluble
internecine
intricate
involved
irksome
jeopardizing
job
knotty
labor
labored
laborious
lethal
load
lucubration
manslayer
massacrer
menacing
moiling
mortal
murderer
murderess
murderous
noxious
nuisance
onerous
opaque
oppressive
painful
parlous
perilous
pernicious
pestilent
pestilential
pick-and-shovel
poisonous
problematic
problematical
recondite
rigorous
risky
rough
rugged
sanguinary
sanguine
serious
severe
slaughterer
slayer
spiny
stiff
strain
strenuous
stressful
strict
stringent
stubborn
sublethal
sweat
sweaty
tall
taxing
terminal
testing
thorny
threatening
ticklish
tight
toilsome
torpedo
tough
toxic
tricky
triggerman
trouble
troublesome
truculent
trying
ugly
unhealthy
unsound
uphill
vexatious
virulent
vital
weight

Antonyms for killer

accessible
achievable
advantageous
alleviative
beneficial
breeze
cheap
cinch
clear
comforting
corrective
curative
doable
duck soup
easy
effortless
elementary
facile
friendly
gentle
healthful
healthy
idiotproof
kid stuff
light
manageable
mindless
nonfatal
nonlethal
nonpoisonous
nontoxic
painless
relaxed
remedial
restorative
safe
salubrious
salutary
setup
simple
smooth
snap
soft
soothing
tonic
uncomplicated
undemanding
useful
user-friendly
wholesome

Meanings of killer

noun
1. One who or that which kills.
2. That which causes stress or is extremely difficult, especially that which may cause failure at a task.
3. Something that is so far ahead of its competition that it effectively kills off that competition.
4. A knockout form of darts or pool involving several players.
5. A club used for killing fish.
6. A particularly heavy type of handstamp, or portion of one, often obscuring a large part of the postage stamp.
7. A diacritical 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).
8. A sea mammal related to dolphins and porpoises (Orcinus orca).
adjective
1. Excellent, very good, cool.
2. Causing death, destruction, or obliteration.
3. Distressing, uncomfortable.

Example Sentences

The detective was determined to catch the serial killer.
That roller coaster is a real killer ride!
The tiger is a natural-born killer in the wild.
His performance in the game was absolutely killer.
The new thriller movie features a mysterious killer on the loose.

On this page you'll find 206 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to killer, such as: Augean, abstract, abstruse, accessible, achievable, advantageous, alleviative.

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