All killer synonyms
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K k noun killer
- murderer — a person who commits murder.
- hunter — John, 1728–93, Scottish surgeon, physiologist, and biologist.
- butcher — A butcher is a shopkeeper who cuts up and sells meat. Some butchers also kill animals for meat and make foods such as sausages and meat pies.
- slayer — to kill by violence.
- soldier — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
- assassin — An assassin is a person who assassinates someone.
- slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
- executioner — An official who carries out a sentence of death on a legally condemned person.
- destroyer — A destroyer is a small, heavily armed warship.
- eradicator — A person who, or thing that eradicates.
- exterminator — Someone or something that exterminates.
- hit man — a hired killer, especially a professional killer from the underworld.
- hatchet man — a professional murderer.
- gunperson — (rare) A gunman or gunwoman.
- disease — a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment.
- cut-throat — If you describe a situation as cut-throat, you mean that the people or companies involved all want success and do not care if they harm each other in getting it.
- predator — Zoology. any organism that exists by preying upon other organisms.
- natural disaster — meteorological or geological catastrophe
adjective killer
- hard-hearted — unfeeling; unmerciful; pitiless.
- killer instinct — If you say that a sports player or politician has the killer instinct, you admire them for their toughness and determination to succeed.
- homicidal — of or relating to homicide.
- coldblooded — having a body temperature that fluctuates, approximating that of the surrounding air, land, or water
- ruthless — without pity or compassion; cruel; merciless: a ruthless tyrant.
- ironfisted — ruthless, harsh, and tyrannical: an ironfisted dictator.
- competitive — Competitive is used to describe situations or activities in which people or firms compete with each other.
- at odds — If someone is at odds with someone else, or if two people are at odds, they are disagreeing or quarrelling with each other.
- streetwise — street-smart.
- dog eat dog — marked by destructive or ruthless competition; without self-restraint, ethics, etc.: It's a dog-eat-dog industry.
- pestilent — producing or tending to produce infectious or contagious, often epidemic, disease; pestilential.