Keen

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  • adjective. Having a fine, sharp cutting edge or point.
  • adjective. Having or marked by intellectual quickness and acuity. synonym: sharp.
  • adjective. Acutely sensitive.
  • adjective. Sharp; vivid; strong.
  • adjective. Intense or bracing.
  • adjective. Pungent; acrid.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Ardent; enthusiastic.
  • adjective. Eagerly desirous.
  • adjective. Great; splendid; fine.
  • noun. A loud wailing or lament for the dead.
  • intransitive verb. To wail in lamentation, especially for the dead. synonym: cry.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make keen or sharp; sharpen.
  • To chap, as the hands.
  • noun. A loud lamentation made over the dead; a wailing.
  • To make a loud lamentation over the dead; lament; wail.
  • To wail over any loss, or in anticipation of loss.
  • noun. The angle to which the wire tooth of card-clothing is bent between the foundation material and the point.
  • Bold; daring; brave; active: applied to men.
  • Grim; fierce; savage; rapacious: applied to wild animals.
  • Vehement; earnest; eager; ardent; fierce; animated by or showing strong feeling or desire: as, a keen fighter; to be keen at a bargain.
  • Such as to cut or penetrate easily; having a very sharp point or edge; sharp; acute: as, a keen edge.
  • Sharp or irritating to the body or the mind; acutely harsh or painful; biting; stinging; tingling.
  • Having a cutting or incisive character or effect; penetrating; vigorous; energetic; vivid; intense: as, keen eyes; a keen look; a keen rebuke; keen-witted.
  • Having or manifesting great mental acuteness; characterized by great quickness or penetration of thought; sharply perceptive: as, a keen logician or debater; keen insight.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To wail as a keener does.
  • transitive verb. To sharpen; to make cold.
  • adjective. Sharp; having a fine edge or point.
  • adjective. Acute of mind; sharp; penetrating; having or expressing mental acuteness
  • adjective. Bitter; piercing; acrimonious; cutting; stinging; severe.
  • adjective. Piercing; penetrating; cutting; sharp; -- applied to cold, wind, etc.
  • adjective. Eager; vehement; fierce.
  • adjective. Wonderful; delightful; marvelous.
  • noun. A prolonged wail for a deceased person. Cf. coranach.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A prolonged wail for a deceased person.
  • verb. To utter a keen.
  • verb. To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.
  • verb. To mourn.
  • adjective. showing a quick and ardent willingness or responsiveness, enthusiastic, eager; interested, intense.
  • adjective. vehement; fierce; as, a keen appetite.
  • adjective. sharp; having a fine edge or point.
  • adjective. acute of mind; sharp; penetrating; having or expressing mental acuteness.
  • adjective. bitter; piercing; acrimonious; cutting; stinging; severe; as, keen satire or sarcasm.
  • adjective. piercing; penetrating; cutting; sharp; -- applied to cold, wind, etc,; as, a keen wind; the cold is very keen.
  • adjective. Enthusiastic
  • adjective. Marvelous.
  • adjective. extremely low as to be competitive.
  • adjective. brave, courageous; bold, audacious.
  • verb. To sharpen; to make cold.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. having a sharp cutting edge or point