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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)

  1. 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
  2. (computing theory) Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.
    an eager algorithm
  3. (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
  4. (obsolete) Sharp; sour; acid.
  5. (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)

  1. 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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hostile

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French hostile, from Latin host?lis, from hostis (enemy). Displaced Old English f?ondl??.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?h?sta?l/, /?h?st?l/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?h?st?l/, /?h?sta?l/
  • Homophone: hostel (one pronunciation)
  • Rhymes: -?st?l

Adjective

hostile (comparative more hostile, superlative most hostile)

  1. Not friendly, appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure
    Synonyms: inimical, unfriendly
    a hostile force
    hostile intentions
    a hostile country
    hostile to a sudden change
  2. Aggressive, antagonistic.
  3. Unwilling
  4. Of a hostile takeover.
    Microsoft may go hostile in its bid for Yahoo as soon as Friday, according to a published report.

Synonyms

  • antagonistic
  • hateful
  • See also Thesaurus:hostile

Antonyms

  • friendly

Related terms

  • hostility
  • hostilely
  • host
  • See also Thesaurus:combative

Translations

Noun

hostile (plural hostiles)

  1. (chiefly in the plural) An enemy.

Translations

Anagrams

  • Elohist, eoliths, holiest, sholtie

French

Etymology

From Middle French hostile, hostif (this form with a change of suffix), borrowed from Latin hostilis.

Pronunciation

  • (mute h) IPA(key): /?s.til/

Adjective

hostile (plural hostiles)

  1. hostile
  2. unfriendly

Synonyms

  • ennemi

Related terms

  • hostilité
  • ost

Further reading

  • “hostile” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Adjective

host?le

  1. nominative neuter singular of host?lis
  2. accusative neuter singular of host?lis
  3. vocative neuter singular of host?lis

References

  • hostile in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

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