Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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killer

UK /ˈkɪlə/ · US /ˈkɪlɚ/ noun, adjective

Forms killers

  1. noun One who or that which kills. “There’s a killer on the loose.”
  2. noun (figuratively) That which causes stress or is extremely difficult, especially that which may cause failure at a task. “That test was a killer.”
  3. noun (figuratively) Something that is so far ahead of its competition that it effectively kills off that competition. “Digital streaming platforms are CD killers.”
  4. noun (archaic or by ellipsis) The killer whale.
  5. noun (figuratively) A remarkably impressive person or thing.
  6. noun (sports, uncountable) A knockout form of darts or pool involving several players.
  7. noun A club used for killing fish.
  8. noun (philately) A particularly heavy type of handstamp, or portion of one, often obscuring a large part of the postage stamp.
  9. adjective (slang) Excellent, very good, cool. “killer feature”
  10. adjective Causing death, destruction, or obliteration. “killer bee”
  11. adjective Distressing, uncomfortable. “I had a killer headache this morning.”

Synonyms

virama homicide homicider ace admirable amazing awe-inspiring awesome badass broyal bang on bang-up studly based beatific beneship bitching blissful bomb brilliant slayer cause of death killer whale orca grampus sea wolf Orcinus orca

Antonyms

healer life giver

Etymology

From Middle English killer, kyller. By surface analysis, kill + -er.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who deprives of life; one who, or that which, kills.
  2. noun A voracious, toothed whale of the genus Orca, of which several species are known.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “killer”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “killer” (best matches first).

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