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EAGER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)
Synonyms:
aegir; bore; eager; eagre; tidal bore
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("eager" is a kind of...):
tidal current; tidal flow (the water current caused by the tides)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy
Example:
an eager look
Classified under:
Similar:
anxious; dying (eagerly desirous)
hot (having or showing great eagerness or enthusiasm)
impatient; raring ((usually followed by 'to') full of eagerness)
overeager (excessively eager)
Also:
enthusiastic (having or showing great excitement and interest)
Antonym:
uneager (lacking interest or spirit or animation)
Derivation:
eagerness (a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something)
Context examples:
"Me loves evvybody," she once said, opening her arms, with her spoon in one hand, and her mug in the other, as if eager to embrace and nourish the whole world.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
She prized the frank, the open-hearted, the eager character beyond all others.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
He was eager that I should break the entail, and he was of opinion that it lay in my power to do so.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Her face was haggard and thin and eager, stamped with the print of a recent horror.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To Holmes, as I could see by his eager face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read upon the trampled grass.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At table he failed to hear the conversation about petty and ignoble things, his eager mind seeking out and following cause and effect in everything before him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Isabella now entered the room with so eager a step, and a look of such happy importance, as engaged all her friend's notice.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Buck was no less eager, and no less cautious, as he likewise circled back and forth for the advantage.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
But the islanders were ready and eager for the encounter.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Yes, cried he in the same eager tone, with all and every thing belonging to it;—in no one convenience or INconvenience about it, should the least variation be perceptible.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
