Thesaurus:killer
English edit
Noun edit
Sense: person who kills or has killed another person edit
Synonyms edit
Hyponyms edit
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- archmurderer
- assassin
- assassinator
- bane
- bloodshedder
- bravo
- butcher
- contract killer
- deathmonger
- head hunter
- head-hunter
- headhunter
- hitman
- hatchetman
- mass murderer
- massacrer
- murderer
- murderess
- ripper
- serial killer
- slayer
- spree killer
- trigger man
- —
- cannibal
- despatcher
- dispatcher
- euthaniser
- euthanizer
- exterminator
- hunter
- man-eater
- man-killer
- slaughterer
- —
- manslaughterer
- manslayer
- suicider
- —
- archer
- cutthroat
- disemboweller
- drowner
- eviscerator
- garroter
- gunman
- lyncher
- shooter
- smotherer
- sniper
- stabber
- strangler
- swordsman
- poisoner
- beheader
- —
- carnifex
- electrocutioner
- executioner
- hangman
- headsman
Antonyms edit
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See also edit
Further reading edit
- 165. “destroyer” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- 361. “killing” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “killer” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.