keen

  1. Adjective.  showing a quick and ardent willingness or responsiveness, enthusiastic, eager; interested, intense.
  2. Adjective.  vehement; fierce; as, a keen appetite.
  3. Adjective.  sharp; having a fine edge or point.
  4. Adjective.  acute of mind; sharp; penetrating; having or expressing mental acuteness.
  5. Adjective.  bitter; piercing; acrimonious; cutting; stinging; severe; as, keen satire or sarcasm.
  6. Adjective.  piercing; penetrating; cutting; sharp; -- applied to cold, wind, etc,; as, a keen wind; the cold is very keen.
  7. Adjective.  (context, often) Enthusiastic.
  8. Adjective.  (US, informal) Marvelous.
  9. Adjective.  (UK) extremely low as to be competitive.
  10. Adjective.  (obsolete) brave, courageous; bold, audacious.
  11. Verb.  (transitive, rare) To sharpen; to make cold.
  12. Noun.  A prolonged wail for a deceased person.
  13. Verb.  (intransitive) To utter a keen.
  14. Verb.  (transitive) To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.
  15. Verb.  (transitive) To mourn.

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This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.