Killing

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: kill=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

Killing, a. 

 Literally, that kills; having power to kill; fatal; in a colloquial sense, conquering; captivating; irresistible.  [1913 Webster]
"Those eyes are made so killing."  [1913 Webster]
"Nothing could be more killingly spoken."  [1913 Webster]

Killing, n. 

•  The act or process of causing a living organism to die.  [PJC]
•  An unusually large gain in a financial or business transaction or enterprise; as, she made a killing trading cattle futures.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Killing, n. & adj.
--n.
1 a the causing of death. b an instance of this.
2 a great (esp. financial) success (make a killing).
--adj. colloq.
1 overwhelmingly funny.
2 exhausting; very strenuous.

Idiom

killing-bottle a bottle containing poisonous vapour to kill insects collected as specimens.

Derivative

killingly adv.

THESAURUS

Killing

Herculean, arduous, asphyxiation, assault, attack, backbreaking, baneful, battering, beaming, best seller, big hit, blood, bloodshed, blooming, bomb, bonanza, bright, brilliant, brilliant success, brutal, burdensome, butchery, capital gains, carnage, choke, choking, cleanup, clear profit, coup, crushing, dazzling, deadly, death, death-bringing, deathful, deathly, debilitating, decimation, destructive, devastating, difficult, disorderliness, dividends, divine, draining, drowning, earnings, effortful, enervating, execution, exhausting, extermination, fad, fatal, fatality, fatiguesome, fatiguing, feral, filthy lucre, forced, forcible seizure, foul play, gain, gains, gas, gasser, genocide, get, gettings, glamorous, gleanings, glorious, glowing, gorgeous, great success, gross, gross profit, grueling, hard-earned, hard-fought, heavenly, heavy, hefty, hit, hoard, homicide, income, interest, internecine, labored, laborious, laying waste, lethal, liquidation, liver death, looting, lucre, makings, malign, malignant, manslaughter, mass destruction, mass murder, massacre, megadeath, meteoric success, momentary success, mortal, murder, neat profit, net, net profit, obstreperousness, onerous, onslaught, operose, oppressive, painful, paper profits, pelf, percentage, perk, perks, pernicious, perquisite, pickings, pillaging, proceeds, profit, profits, punishing, radiant, rake-off, rape, raving, ravishing, receipts, resounding triumph, resplendent, return, returns, riot, rioting, roaring success, ruinous, sacking, savage, sensation, serum death, shining, slaughter, slaying, smash, smash hit, smotheration, smothering, sowing with salt, sparkling, splendid, splendorous, splendrous, starvation, store, strained, straining, strangling, strangulation, strenuous, stressful, stroke of luck, stunning, sublime, success, suffocation, take, take-in, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, tough, triumph, troublesome, trying, unruliness, uphill, violation, violent death, virulent, watery grave, wealth, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying, windfall, winnings, wow

ROGET THESAURUS

Killing

Success

N success, successfulness, speed, advance, trump card, hit, stroke, score, lucky hit, fortunate hit, good hit, good stroke, direct hit, bull's eye, goal, point, touchdown, home run, homer, hole-in-one, grand slam, killing, windfall bold stroke, master stroke, ten strike, coup de maitre, checkmate, half the battle, prize, profit, continued success, good fortune, time well spent, advantage over, upper hand, whip hand, ascendancy, mastery, expugnation, conquest, victory, subdual, subjugation, triumph, proficiency, conqueror, victor, winner, master of the situation, master of the position, top of the heap, king of the hill, achiever, success, success story, succeeding, successful, prosperous, triumphant, flushed with success, crowned with success, victorious, on top, set up, in the ascendant, unbeaten (beat), well-spent, felicitous, effective, in full swing, successfully, well flying colors, in triumph, swimmingly, a merveille, beyond all hope, to some purpose, to good purpose, to one's heart's content, veni vidi vici, the day being one's own, one's star in the ascendant, omne tulit punctum, bis vincit qui se vincit in victoria, cede repugnanti cedendo victor abibis, chacun est l'artisan de sa fortune, dies faustus, l'art de vaincre est celui de mepriser la mort, omnia vincit amor, love conquers all, peace hath her victories no less renowned than war, the race by vigor not by vaunts is won, vincit qui patitur, vincit qui se vincit, The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

Pleasurableness

N pleasurableness, pleasantness, agreeableness, pleasure giving, jucundity, delectability, amusement, attraction, attractiveness, attractability, invitingness, harm, fascination, enchantment, witchery, seduction, winning ways, amenity, amiability, winsomeness, loveliness, sunny side, bright side, sweets, goodness, manna in the wilderness, land flowing with milk and honey, bittersweet, fair weather, treat, regale, dainty, titbit, tidbit, nuts, sauce piquante, causing pleasure, laetificant, pleasure-giving, pleasing, pleasant, pleasurable, agreeable, grateful, gratifying, leef, lief, acceptable, welcome, welcome as the roses in May, welcomed, favorite, to one's taste, to one's mind, to one's liking, satisfactory, refreshing, comfortable, cordial, genial, glad, gladsome, sweet, delectable, nice, dainty, delicate, delicious, dulcet, luscious, palatable, luxurious, voluptuous, sensual, attractive, inviting, prepossessing, engaging, winning, winsome, taking, fascinating, captivating, killing, seducing, seductive, heart-robbing, alluring, enticing, appetizing, cheering, bewitching, enchanting, entrancing, enravishing, charming, delightful, felicitous, exquisite, lovely, ravishing, rapturous, heartfelt, thrilling, ecstatic, beatic, beatific, seraphic, empyrean, elysian, palmy, halcyon, Saturnian, decies repetita placebit, charms strike the sight but merit wins the soul, sweetness and light, beauty is only skin deep.

Killing

N killing, homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion, effusion of blood, blood, blood shed, gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery, battue, massacre, fusillade, noyade, thuggery, Thuggism, deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus, execution, judicial murder, martyrdom, butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur, guet-a-pens, gallows, executioner, man-eater, apache, hatchet man, highbinder, regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide, uxoricide, vaticide, suicide, felo de se, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath, immolation, auto da fe, holocaust, suffocation, strangulation, garrote, hanging, lapidation, deadly weapon, Aceldama, slaughtering, phthisozoics, sport, sporting, the chase, venery, hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing, pig- sticking, sportsman, huntsman, fisherman, hunter, Nimrod, slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir, fatal accident, violent death, casualty, killing, murderous, slaughterous, sanguinary, sanguinolent, blood stained, blood thirsty, homicidal, red handed, bloody, bloody minded, ensanguined, gory, thuggish, mortal, fatal, lethal, dead, deadly, mortiferous, lethiferous, unhealthy internecine, suicidal, sporting, piscatorial, piscatory, in at the death, assassination has never changed the history of the, killing, homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion, effusion of blood, blood, blood shed, gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery, battue, massacre, fusillade, noyade, thuggery, Thuggism, deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus, execution, judicial murder, martyrdom, butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur, guet-a-pens, gallows, executioner, man-eater, apache, hatchet man, highbinder, regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide, uxoricide, vaticide, suicide, felo de se, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath, immolation, auto da fe, holocaust, suffocation, strangulation, garrote, hanging, lapidation, deadly weapon, Aceldama, slaughtering, phthisozoics, sport, sporting, the chase, venery, hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing, pig- sticking, sportsman, huntsman, fisherman, hunter, Nimrod, slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir, fatal accident, violent death, casualty, killing, murderous, slaughterous, sanguinary, sanguinolent, blood stained, blood thirsty, homicidal, red handed, bloody, bloody minded, ensanguined, gory, thuggish, mortal, fatal, lethal, dead, deadly, mortiferous, lethiferous, unhealthy internecine, suicidal, sporting, piscatorial, piscatory, in at the death, assassination has never changed the history of the.