eager
About 11.46 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Desirous; keen to do or obtain something.
Stacey is very eager to go cycling this weekend.
- adjective Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.
an eager algorithm
- adjective Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.
- adjective Sharp; sour; acid.
- adjective Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.
- verb To be or become eager.
- verb To express eagerness.
- verb To make or encourage to be eager
Similar words
avid raring zealous enthusiastic eagre overeager great impatient anxious bore
Often followed by
to for and as in eyes desire young interest
Word family
eagerer eagerest eagerly eagerness eagernesses
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