eager
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-rós
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱrós
Proto-Italic *akris
Classical Latin ācer
Late Latin ācrus
Old French aigrebor.
Middle English egre
English eager
Inherited from Middle English egre, eger, from Old French aigre, egre (modern French aigre), from Latin ācrus, variant of ācer (“sharp, keen”); see acid, acerb, etc. Compare vinegar, alegar.
Inflected forms:
form: more eager
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: eagerer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most eager
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: eagerest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: aigre
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: eagre
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: eagers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: eagering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: eagered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: eagered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: aigre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: eagre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Desirous; keen to do or obtain something.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
You stayed up all night to get to the front of the queue. You must be very eager to get tickets.
When to her eager lips is brought / Her infant's thrilling kiss.
a crowd of eager and curious schoolboys
When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him.[…]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.
gloss: Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.
pos: adj
examples: an eager algorithm
gloss: Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.
pos: adj
tags: dated
examples: gold itself will be sometimes so eager, (as artists call it), that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself
gloss: Sharp; sour; acid.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: like eager droppings into milk
gloss: Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
obsolete
examples: If so thou thinkest, vex him with eager words.
It is a nipping and an eager air.
gloss: To be or become eager.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Now everybody considered it a high privilege (valued it at a high consideration) to see him and to hear him speak, and to obey his command (him commanding), whereas he, though being such a person, eagered to be unknown, and to escape notice in solitude.
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.
After entering college, I eagered to have a parttime job.
After the go-ahead from the joint committee, the Mugglesby CO warmed up and eagered up tremendously, and we went back to plotting.
gloss: To express eagerness.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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 […]
gloss: To make or encourage to be eager
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
Synonyms: keen
solicitous
raring
alacritous
athirst
fain
Antonyms: averse
disinclined
reluctant
unwilling
Derived words: beeregar
eager beaver
eager load
eagerly
eagerness
eagersome
overeager
uneager
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