killing

1. 1.

   very funny

   “a killing joke”

   “sidesplitting antics”

   Synonymssidesplitting

   Similarhumorous

   colloquialism

Other forms of killing

plural

killings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about killing

What does killing mean?

killing means "an event that causes someone to die". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in killing?

killing has 2 syllables: kil-ling. The stress falls on "kil". In IPA it is /ˈkɪlɪŋ/.

What is another word for killing?

Close synonyms include violent death, kill, putting to death, cleanup, sidesplitting. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is killing a common word?

killing is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.