Synonyms Dictionary
6. eager, avid, ebullient, enthusiastic, full of enthusiasm, Inf enthused, ready and willing, Archaic, fain, Sl. gung-ho, Sl. psyched, Sl. turned-on; anxious, agog, all agog, Sl. all hopped up; impatient, champing at the bit, bursting to, itching to, raring to; ardent, fervent, fervid, zealous; impassioned, passionate, feverish, heated, Sl. all fired-up.
7. intense, extreme, excruciating, heavy; poignant, heartfelt, deepfelt, Archaic, homefelt; deep, profound, indelible. keen2, n. 1. keening, lamentation, jeremiad, complaint, Archaic, plaint; moan, groan, wail, ululation, howl, cry.
2. elergy, requiem, monody, threnody; dirge, epice-dium, (in Scotland and Ireland) coronach, death song. -v. 3. lament, mourn, sorrow, grieve; wail, weep, sob, cry, ululate, howl; go into mourning; wear or put on mourning; moan, groan, fret, repine. keen-eyed, adj. sharp-sighted, quick-sighted, eagleeyed, hawk-eyed, lynx-eyed; all-seeing, all-observant, not missing a thing, taking it all in; perspicacious, discerning, discriminating, perceptive, percipient, clearsighted; keen, acute, sharp, sharp as a tack, alert, bright, wide-awake, Sl. on the job, Sl. on the ball; on the watch for, watchful, vigilant, Argus-eyed; on the alert, on the qui vive, on guard, on the lookout; wary, chary, cautious, careful, circumspect, prudent, discreet. keenness, n. 1. cogency, penetration, incisiveness, pointedness; mordancy, mordaciousness, trenchancy, pungency, cuttingness, bitingness, stingingness, scorchingness; satiricalness, sardonicism, derisiveness, mockingness, insultingness; harshness, severity, stringency, roughness; unkindness, uncharitableness, maliciousness, malevolence, malignancy, cruelty; virulence, bitterness, acrimony, acrimoniousness, acridness, acidity, acerbity, rancorousness, venomousness.
2. acuteness, sharpness, sensitivity, discernment, discrimination, perception, percipience, perspicacity; consciousness, cognizance, awareness, sentience, sensibility, comprehension, understanding; sympathy, empathy, responsiveness.
3. astuteness, wisdom, sagacity, sapience; intelligence, smartness, Sl. smarts, brightness, Inf. braininess; shrewdness, cleverness, subtlety, canniness, cunning, slyness, wiliness, foxiness, Scot. and North Eng. pawkiness.
4. intentness, earnestness, diligence, assiduousness; enterprise, aggressiveness, ambitiousness, ambition, hustle; energy, vigorousness, vigor, dynamism; animation, liveliness, spiritedness, high-spiritedness, vivacity, vivaciousness, lustiness, activeness; All Inf. snap
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