keen
- 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. (context, often) Enthusiastic.
- Adjective. (US, informal) Marvelous.
- Adjective. (UK) extremely low as to be competitive.
- Adjective. (obsolete) brave, courageous; bold, audacious.
- Verb. (transitive, rare) To sharpen; to make cold.
- Noun. A prolonged wail for a deceased person.
- Verb. (intransitive) To utter a keen.
- Verb. (transitive) To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.
- Verb. (transitive) To mourn.
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