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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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whatever

English

Etymology

what +? -ever

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??t??v?/, /w?t??v?/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /w?t??v?/, /w????v?/
  • Rhymes: -?v?(r)

Unusually, the /t/ in whatever may be flapped in certain dialects, despite preceding a stressed syllable.

Determiner

whatever

  1. no matter what; for any
  2. (relative) Anything that.

Derived terms

  • whateverism
  • whateverness
  • whatsoever

Related terms

  • whatever creams your twinkie
  • whatever floats your boat
  • whatever it takes

Translations

Pronoun

whatever

  1. No matter what; for any
  2. (relative) Anything; sometimes used to indicate that the speaker does not care about options.

Translations

Interjection

whatever

  1. (colloquial, dismissive) A holophrastic expression used discourteously to indicate that the speaker does not consider the matter worthy of further discussion.

Usage notes

  • Tone of voice is particularly important here in playing up or playing down the dismissive quality of the word.

Synonyms

  • so what
  • whoopee do
  • meh
  • whatev

Translations

Adjective

whatever (comparative more whatever, superlative most whatever)

  1. (colloquial) Unexceptional or unimportant; blah.
  2. (dated, postpositive) At all, absolutely, whatsoever.
    • 1864, Charles Piazzi Smyth, Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid (page 207)
      So then arose the horrible confusion perpetuated ever since, of perversely different kinds of weights, jostling each other in Britain; Troy weight and Avoirdupois weight and Apothecaries' weight, wherein or whereamongst every one is at sea with regard to testing them, and no one whatever is satisfied.

Noun

whatever (plural whatevers)

  1. (colloquial) Something whose exact kind or nature is unimportant; a thingy.
    • 2003, David Soubly, Santa, CEO (page 91)
      How would you feel if you're a plant elf, and your daily bonus is tied to the number of whatevers you produce, and then this big clumsy thing barges in and knocks your rate back for the whole week?

Related terms

References

  • whatever at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

  • everwhat

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