Word Meanings - EAGERNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire. "The eagerness of love." Addison. 2. Tartness; sourness. Syn. -- Ardor; vehemence; earnestness; impetuosity; heartiness; fervor; fervency; avidity; zeal; craving; heat; passion; greediness.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EAGERNESS)

• Anxiety
• Care
• trouble
• eagerness
• disquiet
• apprehension
• carefulness
• diffidence
• solicitude
• misgiving
• Aspiration
• Longing
• desire
• aim
• wish
• craving
• ambition
• endeavor
• hope
• appetition
• effort
• Avidity
• Cupidity
• avarice
• greed
• longing
• rapacity
• Bustle
• Business
• activity
• stir
• commotion
• energy
• excitement
• haste
• hurry
• flurry
• Intensity
• Tension
• force
• concentration
• strain
• attention
• ardor

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EAGERNESS)

• Soothe
• compose
• quiet
• calm
• mesmerize
• Compose
• allay
• appease
• please
• soothe
• delight
• gratify
• recreate
• entertain
• relieve
• refresh

Related words: (words related to EAGERNESS)

• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• GREENLANDER
  A native of Greenland.
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• GREETING
  Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent. Write to him . . . gentle adieus and greetings. Shak. Syn. -- Salutation; salute; compliment.
• GREENLET
  l. One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love ; the warbling greenlet ; the yellow-throated greenlet and others. See Vireo. 2. Any species
• GRENADO
  See GRENADE
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• LONGIPALP
  One of a tribe of beetles, having long maxillary palpi.
• 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.
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• GREENSAND
  A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime. Note: Greensand is often called marl, because
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
• GREENFISH
  See POLLOCK
• GREENOCKITE
  Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.
• LONGSOME
  Extended in length; tiresome. Bp. Hall. Prior. -- Long"some*ness, n. Fuller.
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• DISQUIETLY
  In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
• LONGULITE
  A kind of crystallite having a acicular form.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• ARM-GRET
  Great as a man's arm. A wreath of gold, arm-gret. Chaucer.
• AGGREGATOR
  One who aggregates.
• SANGRAAL; SANGREAL
  See GRAIL
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• UNPEDIGREED
  Not distinguished by a pedigree. Pollok.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• AMBERGREASE
  See AMBERGRIS
• REGREDE
  To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit. Todhunter.