keen
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Is keen a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (chiefly Commonwealth) Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness or willingness; eager, enthusiastic, interested.Examples: "I’m keen on computers."; "I’m keen on you."; "She’s keen to learn another language."Synonyms: ardent, eager, promptCommonwealth
2. (British) Of prices, extremely low as to be competitive.British
3. (US, informal, dated) Marvelous.Examples: "I just got this peachy keen new dress."; "Oh, but they're weird and they're wonderful / Oh, Bennie, she's really keen / She's got electric boots, a mohair suit / You know I read it in a magazine, oh / B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets"; "Well our hosts here attacked us with a fantastic Dismodulating Anti Phase stun ray and then invited us to this amazingly keen meal by way of making it up to us."USdatedinformal
4. (obsolete) Brave, courageous; audacious, bold.obsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive, rare) To make cold, to sharpen.Examples: "This is the pureſt exerciſe of health, / The kind refreſher of the ſummer-heats; / Nor, when cold Winter keens the brightening flood, / Would I weak-ſhivering linger on the brink."raretransitive
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To utter a keen.Examples: "Last night he had put down too much Potheen / (A vulgar blend of Methyl and Benzene) / That, at some Wake, he might the better keen. / (Keen—meaning 'brisk'? Nay, here the Language warps: / 'Tis singing bawdy Ballads to a Corpse.)"Synonyms: howl, wailintransitive
2. (transitive) To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.Examples: "Pelicans fly below us with stiffly formal strokes, and gulls wheel and keen."; "Satiran, lost in his own grief, shuddered once, then lifted his head to the sky and keened out his loss to the heavens."transitive
3. (transitive) To mourn.Examples: "I keened my Gran, I keened my babies, but then my words poured out of my grief. I don't have the full heart like that for Owen, sorry as I am for his goin. Without the heavy grief on me I can maybe think of the words easier."; "She sniffed and nodded and cried and wailed and keened for her husband, who would never come back to her."Synonyms: grieve, lament, begrieve, bemoan, bewail, beweep, condole, deploretransitive
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