Definition of Keen

Adjective: keen (keener,keenest)  keen

  1. Having or showing great excitement and interest
    - enthusiastic
     
  2. Having a strong or impatient wish to do something
    - eager
     
  3. Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
    - acute, discriminating, incisive, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp
     
  4. Intense or sharp
    "suffered keen pain";
    - exquisite
     
  5. Very good
    "he did a keen job";
    - bang-up, bully, corking [Brit, informal], cracking [Brit, informal], dandy, great, groovy, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing, grouse [Austral, NZ], ripper [Austral], lovely
     
  6. Painful as if caused by a sharp instrument
    "keen winds";
    - cutting, knifelike, piercing, stabbing, lancinate, lancinating
     
  7. Having a sharp cutting edge or point
    "a keen blade"
Noun: keen  keen
  1. A funeral lament sung with loud wailing
Verb: keen  keen
  1. Express grief verbally
    "we keened the death of the child";
    - lament

See also:
keelsons
keened

Anagrams containing the word keen

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