Usually means: Most intense, sharp, or acute.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. keenest: Merriam-Webster
  2. keenest: Collins English Dictionary
  3. keenest: Vocabulary.com
  4. keenest: Wordnik
  5. keenest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. keenest: Wiktionary
  7. Keenest, keenest: Dictionary.com
  8. keenest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. keenest: FreeDictionary.org
  10. keenest: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. keenest: Legal dictionary

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  1. keenest: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Keen)

adjective:  (chiefly Commonwealth) Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness or willingness; eager, enthusiastic, interested.
adjective:  Fierce, intense, vehement.
adjective:  Having a fine edge or point; sharp.
adjective:  Acute of mind, having or expressing mental acuteness; penetrating, sharp.
adjective:  Acrimonious, bitter, piercing.
adjective:  Of cold, wind, etc.: cutting, penetrating, piercing, sharp.
adjective:  (British) Of prices, extremely low as to be competitive.
adjective:  (US, informal, dated) Marvelous.
adjective:  (obsolete) Brave, courageous; audacious, bold.
verb:  (transitive, rare) To make cold, to sharpen.
noun:  A prolonged wail for a deceased person.
verb:  (intransitive) To utter a keen.
verb:  (transitive) To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.
verb:  (transitive) To mourn.
noun:  A surname.
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