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1. eager

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Usually means: Keenly enthusiastic and impatiently excited.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word eager:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. eager: Merriam-Webster
  2. eager: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. eager, eager: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. eager: Collins English Dictionary
  5. eager: Vocabulary.com
  6. Eager, eager: Wordnik
  7. eager: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Eager, eager: Wiktionary
  9. eager: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. eager: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. eager: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Eager, eager: Dictionary.com
  13. eager: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. eager: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Eager (novel), Eager (surname), Eager: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Eager: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. eager: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. eager: Rhymezone
  19. eager: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. eager: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. eager: FreeDictionary.org
  22. eager: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. eager: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. eager: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. eager: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Eager (musical group), eager: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Eager (musical group), eager: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. EAGER: Acronym Finder
  2. eager: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eager: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Desirous; keen to do or obtain something.
▸ adjective:  (computing theory) Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.
▸ adjective:  (dated) Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete, literal) Sharp; sour; acid.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete, figurative) Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To be or become eager.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To express eagerness.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To make or encourage to be eager
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  Alternative form of eagre (tidal bore). [a tidal bore]

Similar:
raring, overeager, avid, impatient, enthusiastic, zealous, anxious, great, hot, dying, more...

Opposite:
apathetic, indifferent, reluctant, unenthusiastic, disinterested

Phrases:
eager beaver, eager beavers, eager evaluation, eager to please, over eager, more...

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    crimson,     scarlet,     vermilion,     ruby,     coral, more...
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Similar:
raring, overeager, avid, impatient, enthusiastic, zealous, anxious, great, hot, dying, more...

Opposite:
apathetic, indifferent, reluctant, unenthusiastic, disinterested

Phrases:
eager beaver, eager beavers, eager evaluation, eager to please, over eager, Edward Eager, Eternally Confused and Eager for Love, Johnny Eager, Eager Lion, eager to learn, eager and then some, opposite of eager, more...

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     vermilion,     ruby,     coral, more...



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