eager

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy

   eager to learn

2. 2
   adj

   Desirous; keen to do or obtain something.

   Stacey is very eager to go cycling this weekend.

3. 3
   adj

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

   an eager algorithm

4. 4
   adj

   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

5. 5
   adj

   Sharp; sour; acid.

   like eager droppings into milk

6. 6
   adj

   Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.

   If so thou thinkest, vex him with eager words.

7. 7
   verb

   To be or become eager.

   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.

8. 8
   verb

   To express eagerness.

   His hair crinkled towards her fondly. "Yes," he eagered.

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.