Word Finder - keener

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Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness or willingness; eager, enthusiastic, interested.

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I’m keen on computers.

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Fierce, intense, vehement.

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This boy has a keen appetite.

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Having a fine edge or point; sharp.

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Acute of mind, having or expressing mental acuteness; penetrating, sharp.

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Acrimonious, bitter, piercing.

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keen satire or sarcasm

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Of cold, wind, etc.: cutting, penetrating, piercing, sharp.

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a keen wind

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Of prices, extremely low as to be competitive.

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Marvelous.

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I just got this peachy keen new dress.

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Brave, courageous; audacious, bold.

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One who keens at a funeral.

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Someone who is excessively keen or eager, possibly making others look bad; a brown-noser.

The Burmese women have a keener business instinct than the men, and serve in some degree to redress the balance.

It was only after a fresh and keener observation of facts that the new theory made rapid progress.

The sensation was immense, and the pursuit became keener.

Since the advent of the British power, the immigration of Hindus with a lower standard of comfort and of Chinamen with a keener business instinct has threatened the economic independence of the Burmese in their own country.

Through the falling snow a purple-black and starry sky showed itself and the frost grew keener.

It is keener with critical rationalism, perhaps, rather than unique to it.

There's a rather gabby new arts supremo, Norman Lebrecht, who seems keener on high culture than youth culture.

There 's a rather gabby new arts supremo, Norman Lebrecht, who seems keener on high culture than youth culture.

A widely-held view in Tehran is that the pragmatic conservatives are keener to strike a bargain with the US than are the liberal reformists.

The central public baths in Infirmary Street, with branch establishments in other parts of the town, including Portobello, are largely resorted to, and the proximity of the Firth of Forth induces the keener swimmers to visit Granton every morning.

Nevertheless, the decade closed more hopefully than it opened, and found farmers taking a keener interest in grass land, in live stock and in dairying.

For this reason their interest in ethical speculations was all the keener; their great thinkers were endlessly engaged in settling what the relation ought to be between duty and self-interest.

Albert and no doubt stood on a higher level than Anselm and Abelard, not merely by their wider range of knowledge but also by the intellectual massiveness of their achieve ments; but it may be questioned whether the earlier writers did not possess a greater force of originality and a keener talent.

At the same time the discovery of new diseases, unknown to the ancients, and the keener attention which the great epidemics of plague caused to be paid to those already known, led to more minute study of the natural history of disease.

After the peace of Augsburg the elector mainly confined his attention to Brandenburg, where he showed a keener desire to further the principles of the Reformation.

Hence it is not so surprising as might at first sight appear that the remote Aestii, a non-Teutonic people settled about the mouth of the Vistula, are represented by Tacitus as keener agriculturists than any of the other inhabitants of Germany.

The Cairenes, or native citizens, differ from the fellahin in having a much larger mixture of Arab blood, and are at once keener witted and more conservative than the peasantry.

It was only by the keener wind that met them and the jerks given by the side horses who pulled harder--ever increasing their gallop--that one noticed how fast the troyka was flying.

It is quite in accordance with the keener consciousness of sin, which prevailed in the middle ages, that the expiatory pilgrimage took its place side by side with the pilgrimage to the glory of God.

Ever since his return from Gaeta, he had made up his mind to a policy of no surrender; and the curtailment of his own dominions in 1860 only made him the keener to denounce the iniquities of other rulers.

It seemed almost as if his wits were sharpened into a keener edge by his very difficulties; but since he condemned on principle every war which was not strictly defensive, and it had fallen to his lot to guide a comparatively small power, he always preferred the way of negotiation, even sometimes where the diplomatic tangle would perhaps best have been severed boldly by the sword.