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eager

/ˈiɡɚ/

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What does eager mean?

adjective

  1. Desirous; keen to do or obtain something.
  2. Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.

verb

  1. To be or become eager.
More meanings (7)

verb

  1. To express eagerness.
  2. To make or encourage to be eager

noun

  1. Alternative form of eagre (“tidal bor”).

proper noun

  1. A surname.

adjective

  1. (dated) Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.
  2. (obsolete) Sharp; sour; acid.
  3. (figuratively, obsolete) Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈiɡɚ/

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Other dictionary pronunciations

/ˈɪɡɚ//ˈɪɡə/
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I want breath and time to discuss this banquet as it deserves, and am too eager to get on with my story.
Washington IrvingThe Legend of Sleepy HollowProject Gutenberg ebook #41
New worlds of thought, feeling, and ambition, fresh, fascinating fields of unexplored knowledge seemed to be opening out before Anne’s eager eyes.
L. M. (Lucy Maud) MontgomeryAnne of Green GablesProject Gutenberg ebook #45
More book examples (3)
He was intensely eager to belong somewhere and to be attached to almost any enterprise that would furnish him food and clothing.
Gene Stratton-PorterFrecklesProject Gutenberg ebook #111
The young men from the Cougourde d’Aix were chatting merrily among themselves, as though eager to speak patois for the last time.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135
They followed it, this time, as eager as children in sight of a circus menagerie—which, indeed, the scene a good deal resembled.
Upton SinclairThe JungleProject Gutenberg ebook #140