Word Meanings - EAGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

aigre, fr. L. acer sharp, sour, spirited, zealous; akin to Gr. a 1. Sharp; sour; acid. "Like eager droppings into milk." Shak. 2. Sharp; keen; bitter; severe. "A nipping and an eager air." "Eager words." Shak. 3. Excited by desire

Additional info about word: EAGER

aigre, fr. L. acer sharp, sour, spirited, zealous; akin to Gr. a 1. Sharp; sour; acid. "Like eager droppings into milk." Shak. 2. Sharp; keen; bitter; severe. "A nipping and an eager air." "Eager words." Shak. 3. Excited by desire in the pursuit of any object; ardent to pursue, perform, or obtain; keenly desirous; hotly longing; earnest; zealous; impetuous; vehement; as, the hounds were eager in the chase. And gazed for tidings in my eager eyes. Shak. How eagerly ye follow my disgraces! Shak. When to her eager lips is brought Her infant's thrilling kiss. Keble. A crowd of eager and curious schoolboys. Hawthorne. Conceit and grief an eager combat fight. Shak. 4. Brittle; inflexible; not ductile. Gold will be sometimes so eager, as artists call it, that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself. Locke. Syn. -- Earnest; ardent; vehement; hot; impetuous; fervent; intense; impassioned; zealous; forward. See Earnest. -- Eager, Earnest. Eager marks an excited state of desire or passion; thus, a child is eager for a plaything, a hungry man is eager for food, a covetous man is eager for gain. Eagerness is liable to frequent abuses, and is good or bad, as the case may be. It relates to what is praiseworthy or the contrary. Earnest denotes a permanent state of mind, feeling, or sentiment. It is always taken in a good sense; as, a preacher is earnest in his appeals to the conscience; an agent is earnest in his solicitations.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EAGER)

• Agape
• Astare
• agog
• astonished
• curious
• inquisitive
• entertained
• amused
• eager
• Ardent
• Longing
• passionate
• aspiring
• fervent
• excited
• fiery
• glowing
• zealous
• fervid
• fierce
• keen
• vehement
• hot
• affectionate
• impassioned
• burning
• heated
• Breathless
• Exhausted
• absorbed
• fascinated
• attentive
• bewildered
• astounded
• Earnest
• Eager
• serious
• intent
• determined
• strenuous
• solemn
• grave
• warm
• intense
• ardent
• Forward
• Advanced
• ready
• anxious
• obtrusive
• self-assertive
• impertinent
• progressive
• onward
• confident
• bold
• presumptuous

Related words: (words related to EAGER)

• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• SERIOUS
  1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay. 2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting
• ANXIOUSLY
  In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• LONGIPALP
  One of a tribe of beetles, having long maxillary palpi.
• ASTONISH
  étonner, fr. L. ex out + tonare to thunder, but perhaps influenced by 1. To stun; to render senseless, as by a blow. The very cramp-fish . . . being herself not benumbed, is able to astonish others. Holland. 2. To strike with sudden
• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• SOLEMNIZATION
  The act of solemnizing; celebration; as, the solemnization of a marriage.
• LONGSPUN
  Spun out, or extended, to great length; hence, long-winded; tedious. The longspun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below. Addison.
• INQUISITIVELY
  In an inquisitive manner. The occasion that made him afterwards so inquisitively apply himself to the study of physic. Boyle.
• SOLEMNIZE
  1. To perform with solemn or ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms. Baptism to be administered in one place, and marriage solemnized in another. Hooker. 2. To dignify or honor by ceremonies; to celebrate. Their choice nobility and flowers
• ARDENT
  1. Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever. 2. Having the appearance or quality of fire; fierce; glowing; shining; as, ardent eyes. Dryden. 3. Warm, applied
• GLOWLAMP
  An aphlogistic lamp. See Aphlogistic.
• BURN
  To apply a cautery to; to cauterize. (more info) birnen, v.i., AS. bærnan, bernan, v.t., birnan, v.i.; akin to OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. brænde, Sw. bränna, brinna, Icel.
• LONGSOME
  Extended in length; tiresome. Bp. Hall. Prior. -- Long"some*ness, n. Fuller.
• ASPIRATOR
  An apparatus for passing air or gases through or over certain liquids or solids, or for exhausting a closed vessel, by means of suction.
• LONGULITE
  A kind of crystallite having a acicular form.
• HEATHER
  Heath. Gorse and grass And heather, where his footsteps pass, The brighter seem. Longfellow. Heather bell , one of the pretty subglobose flowers of two European kinds of heather . (more info) Etym:
• OVERBURN
  To burn too much; to be overzealous.
• RAMUSCULE
  A small ramus, or branch.
• UNSHEATHE
  To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword. To unsheathe the sword, to make war.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• SUNBURNING
  Sunburn; tan. Boyle.
• BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
  See BURNER
• SUNBURN
  To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan. Sunburnt and swarthy though she be. Dryden.