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Eager
E'AGER, a. [L. acer, fierce, brisk, sharp, sour; acus, Eng.edge.]
1. Excited by ardent desire in the pursuit of any object; ardent to pursue, perform or obtain; inflamed by desire; ardently wishing or longing. The soldiers were eager to engage the enemy. Men are eager in the pursuit of wealth. The lover is eager to possess the object of his affections.
2. Ardent; vehement; impetuous; as eager spirits; eager zeal; eager clamors.
3. Sharp; sour; acid; as eager droppings into milk. [Little used.]
4. Sharp; keen; biting; severe; as eager air; eager cold. [Little used.]
5. Brittle; inflexible; not ductile; as, the gold is too eager. [Local.]
eager appears in definitions for these words:
Agape Agog Ambitious Ambitiously Appetite Ardency Ardor Aspirant Aspire Aspiring Avidiously Avidity Chop Clip Contention Covet Covetous Covetously Covetousness Cupidity Devotion Dullness Eager Eagerly Eagerness Earnest Earnestly Earnestness Elude Embrace Emulous Encounter Engorge Exquisitive Fall Fervency Fervently Fervid Fierce Fierceness Flagrant Fleshment Forward Forwardly Forwardness Free Full-winged Gaze Gloat Glutton Greedily Greedy Gulp Hastiness Hasty Hearken Heartily Heartiness Hot Hunger Hungering Hungry Impatient Impatiently Improve Inhiation Intent Intently Intrigue Jerk Jump Keen Keenly Keenness Libidinous Lickerish Long Longing Longingly Lust Lustful Lusting Mind Munch Object Officiousness Overeager Overeagerly Overprompt Overzealous Passion Patient Patiently Precipitate Rage Rake Rattle Raven Ravening Ravenous Regorge Room Rush Salaciously Sanguinary Scramble Scrambling Sharp Sharp-set Sharpen Slack Snap Snappish Spirit Stare Stickling Strenuous Strenuously Strenuousness Strong Strongly Studious Talbot Thirst Thirsting Tone Urge Vehement Violence Voracious Voraciousness Warmly Warmth Wish Yare Zeal Zealously
Agape Agog Ambitious Ambitiously Appetite Ardency Ardor Aspirant Aspire Aspiring Avidiously Avidity Chop Clip Contention Covet Covetous Covetously Covetousness Cupidity Devotion Dullness Eager Eagerly Eagerness Earnest Earnestly Earnestness Elude Embrace Emulous Encounter Engorge Exquisitive Fall Fervency Fervently Fervid Fierce Fierceness Flagrant Fleshment Forward Forwardly Forwardness Free Full-winged Gaze Gloat Glutton Greedily Greedy Gulp Hastiness Hasty Hearken Heartily Heartiness Hot Hunger Hungering Hungry Impatient Impatiently Improve Inhiation Intent Intently Intrigue Jerk Jump Keen Keenly Keenness Libidinous Lickerish Long Longing Longingly Lust Lustful Lusting Mind Munch Object Officiousness Overeager Overeagerly Overprompt Overzealous Passion Patient Patiently Precipitate Rage Rake Rattle Raven Ravening Ravenous Regorge Room Rush Salaciously Sanguinary Scramble Scrambling Sharp Sharp-set Sharpen Slack Snap Snappish Spirit Stare Stickling Strenuous Strenuously Strenuousness Strong Strongly Studious Talbot Thirst Thirsting Tone Urge Vehement Violence Voracious Voraciousness Warmly Warmth Wish Yare Zeal Zealously
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