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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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passions

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?pæ??nz/

Noun

passions

  1. plural of passion

Verb

passions

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of passion

Anagrams

  • Spinosas, saposins

Catalan

Noun

passions

  1. plural of passió

French

Pronunciation

Noun

passions f

  1. plural of passion

Verb

passions

  1. first-person plural imperfect indicative of passer
  2. first-person plural present subjunctive of passer

Anagrams

  • paissons

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