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adjective

Eager adj.

1.

Sharp; sour; acid. (Obs.) "Like eager droppings into milk."

2.

Sharp; keen; bitter; severe. (Obs.) "A nipping and an eager air." "Eager words."

3.

Excited by desire in the pursuit of any object; ardent to pursue, perform, or obtain; keenly desirous; hotly longing; earnest; zealous; impetuous; vehement; as, the hounds were eager in the chase. "And gazed for tidings in my eager eyes." "How eagerly ye follow my disgraces!" "When to her eager lips is brought Her infant's thrilling kiss." "A crowd of eager and curious schoolboys." "Conceit and grief an eager combat fight."

4.

Brittle; inflexible; not ductile. (Obs.) "Gold will be sometimes so eager, as artists call it, that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself."

Synonyms: Earnest; ardent; vehement; hot; impetuous; fervent; intense; impassioned; zealous; forward. See Earnest. Eager, Earnest. Eager marks an excited state of desire or passion; thus, a child is eager for a plaything, a hungry man is eager for food, a covetous man is eager for gain. Eagerness is liable to frequent abuses, and is good or bad, as the case may be. It relates to what is praiseworthy or the contrary. Earnest denotes a permanent state of mind, feeling, or sentiment. It is always taken in a good sense; as, a preacher is earnest in his appeals to the conscience; an agent is earnest in his solicitations.

noun

Eager n. Same as Eagre.

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"Eager" Quotes from Famous Books

... is admitting, and explaining, that he has expressed himself as best he could, but inadequately notwithstanding. He has felt something more delicately, thought upon something more accurately, than he can possibly say. He is always pathetically eager to make himself plain, to be understood. One knows well that touching look in the eyes of a dog when, as we say, it all but speaks. Often have I seen that same look, still more intense, in Tony's eyes, when he has become mazed with efforts to express himself, and I have wished that as with the ...

— A Poor Man's House • Stephen Sydney Reynolds

... the same points privately of others, and discovers that it is all true; that "Dumnorix is the person, a man of the highest daring, in great favour with the people on account of his liberality, a man eager for a revolution: that for a great many years he has been in the habit of contracting for the customs and all the other taxes of the Aedui at a small cost, because when he bids, no one dares to bid against him. By these means he has both increased his own private property ...

— "De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries • Caius Julius Caesar

... thrust the letter hastily into her pocket with but a rapid glance at its contents, just as her numerous guests were ushered in; and her time had been so engrossed that the letter itself was forgotten, though the memory of the eager, passionate words therein was bringing up all the unpleasant scenes that had happened in Halifax ...

— Miss Dexie - A Romance of the Provinces • Stanford Eveleth

... horses, eager to be off, each one held by a Mexican groom. Caliente we already know, and the horse that Jo is to ride also. So let us take a glance at the third animal, Don Fernando. He evidently justified all the enthusiasm of his ...

— Frontier Boys on the Coast - or in the Pirate's Power • Capt. Wyn Roosevelt

... its ability. He was glad now that he was alive, and had something definite in view. It was far better than groping around in a haphazard way looking for work. Something seemed to tell him that he was entering upon the trail of a mystery and he was eager to follow the scent wherever it might lead. The spirit of adventure was in his blood, mingled with the nectar of romance. It had always been there, inherited from his ancestors. It was that same spirit which had caused him to leave the farm and enter college several ...

— Under Sealed Orders • H. A. Cody

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