Eager
['iːgə] or ['igɚ]
Definition
(adj.) having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy; 'eager to learn'; 'eager to travel abroad'; 'eager for success'; 'eager helpers'; 'an eager look' .
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Definition
(a.) Sharp; sour; acid.
(a.) Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.
(a.) Excited by desire in the pursuit of any object; ardent to pursue, perform, or obtain; keenly desirous; hotly longing; earnest; zealous; impetuous; vehement; as, the hounds were eager in the chase.
(a.) Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.
(n.) Same as Eagre.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Longing, yearning, greedy, impatient, keenly desirous.[2]. Ardent, zealous, vehement, impetuous, earnest, animated, fervent, fervid, glowing, hot, sanguine.
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Definition
adj. excited by desire: ardent to do or obtain: (obs.) earnest: keen severe sour acid bitter.—adv. Ea′gerly.—n. Ea′gerness.
Same as Eagre.
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Examples
- You take an eager interest in that gentleman's concerns, said Darcy, in a less tranquil tone, and with a heightened colour. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- His face was eager and expectant--it expressed nothing but the most intense anxiety to hear her next words. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was as if the eager current of her being had been checked by a sudden obstacle which drove it back upon itself. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- This led his eager mind to delve into Italian literature, and shortly the young workman was not only draughtsman and artist, but something of a man of letters as well. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He was eager to commence. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It is the statement of missionaries, that, of all races of the earth, none have received the Gospel with such eager docility as the African. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Bingley was ready, Georgiana was eager, and Darcy determined, to be pleased. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Where there is life, there are already eager and impassioned activities. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Next came two Dutch prints which Mr. Toller had been eager for, and after he had secured them he went away. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This made Dritzhn more eager than ever to learn what the work was. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- She did not mind it at the minute, for she lingered to answer Hannah's eager inquiry. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- This was always my cordial, to which, like other dram-drinkers, I had eager recourse when unsettled by chagrin. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Perhaps like the rest of us they are impelled by forces they are not eager to examine. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She uttered the word with an eager look, and with strong emphasis, and with a weird smile that had a kind of boast in it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But even human sympathies were not sufficient to satisfy his eager mind. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
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