eager

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Desirous

   Desirous; keen to do or obtain something.

   • Stacey is very eager to go cycling this weekend.
   • The hounds were eager in the chase.
   • I was eager to show my teacher how much I'd learned over the holidays.
2. 2

   Not employing lazy evaluation

   Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.

   • an eager algorithm
3. 3

   Brittle

   Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.

   • gold itself will be sometimes so eager, (as artists call it), that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself
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   1. 4

      Sharp

      Sharp; sour; acid.

      • like eager droppings into milk
   2. 5

      To be or become eager.

      • Our spirits fret and chafe like sea waves on the rocks eagering to climb the shore.
      • The buggy jolted on, the stout, wellkept team eagering, homing, barning.
   3. 6

      To express eagerness.

      • His hair crinkled towards her fondly. "Yes," he eagered.
      • Peg! eager voices eagered voicely.
      • […] Sister Clare saying Oh look a greenfinch and the name was a gift to me as much as the three and a half more minutes the green vision danced and fretted and eagered and preened in front of me […]
   4. 7

      To make or encourage to be eager

      • Physicians also admit to eagering patients to turn to specialised web sites in order to read further.
      • But they only eagered him to be off .
      • Its presence gave him no thought of condemnation, but only eagered his longing for the redemption body.
   5. 8

      Alternative form of eagre (“tidal bor”).

   6. 9

      A surname.

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• antonymaverseantonym(s) of “desirous”
• antonymdisinclinedantonym(s) of “desirous”
• antonymreluctantantonym(s) of “desirous”
• antonymunwillingantonym(s) of “desirous”