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eager
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?i??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?i???/
- Rhymes: -i???(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English egre, eger, from Old French egre (French aigre), from Latin acer (“sharp, keen”); see acid, acerb, etc. Compare vinegar, alegar.
Alternative forms
- aigre (obsolete)
- eagre (obsolete)
Adjective
eager (comparative more eager, superlative most eager)
- Desirous; keen to do or obtain something.
- 1887, John Keble, s:The Christian Year
- When to her eager lips is brought / Her infant's thrilling kiss.
- a crowd of eager and curious schoolboys
- 1887, John Keble, s:The Christian Year
- (computing theory) Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.
- an eager algorithm
- (dated) Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.
- gold itself will be sometimes so eager, (as artists call it), that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself
- (obsolete) Sharp; sour; acid.
- (obsolete) Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.
Synonyms
- keen
- raring
- fain (archaic)
Derived terms
- eager beaver
- eagerly
- eagerness
Translations
Etymology 2
See eagre.
Noun
eager (plural eagers)
- Alternative form of eagre (tidal bore).
Further reading
- eager in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- eager in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- eager at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- aeger, agree, eagre, geare, æger
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anhele
English
Etymology
Compare Old French aneler, anheler. See anhelation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?hi?l/, /??ni?l/
- Homophone: anneal
Verb
anhele (third-person singular simple present anheles, present participle anheling, simple past and past participle anheled)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To pant; to be breathlessly anxious or eager (for).
- They anheale […] for the fruit of our convocation.
Anagrams
- Helena, Lehane
Esperanto
Etymology
anheli +? -e.
Adverb
anhele
- breathlessly
Spanish
Verb
anhele
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of anhelar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of anhelar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of anhelar.
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