Eager

Definitions: Eager

Eager

Adjective

1. Having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy; "eager to learn"; "eager to travel abroad"; "eager for success"; "eager helpers"; "an eager look".

2. Marked by active interest and enthusiasm; "an avid sports fan"; "a great walker"; "an eager beaver".

Noun

1. A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "eager" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Eager

Activity

Forward, eager, strenuous, zealous, enterprising, in earnest; resolute.

Desire

Eager, avid, keen; burning, fervent, ardent; agog; all agog; breathless; impatient; (impetuous); bent on, intent on, set on, bent upon, intent upon, set upon; mad after, enrage, rabid, dying for, devoured by desire.

Excitation

Eager to go, anxious to go, chafing at the bit.

Expectation

Suspense, waiting, abeyance; curiosity; anxious expectation, ardent expectation, eager expectation, breathless expectation, sanguine expectation; torment of Tantalus.

Feeling

Earnest, wistful, eager, breathless; fervent; fervid; gushing, passionate, warm-hearted, hearty, cordial, sincere, zealous, enthusiastic, glowing, ardent, burning, red-hot, fiery, flaming; boiling over.

Willingness

Ready, forward, earnest, eager; bent upon; (desirous); predisposed, propense.

Crosswords: Eager

Everything? You are far too eager and curious for a hobbit. (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Oh, my my my my, what an eager little mind. (Auntie Mame; writing credit: Betty Comden; Patrick Dennis)

Next time don't be so fuckin' eager! (Natural Born Killers; writing credit: David Veloz)

Funny. 'Cause I look around at this world you're so eager to be a part of and all I see is six billion lunatics looking for the fastest ride out. Who's not crazy? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

I've been eager myself. (Law & Order; writing credit: Peter Yeldham)

But I'm back on my feet and eager to be what you wanted ("Lost In Love"; performing artist: Air Supply)

Eager to please, ready to fight ("I Go To Extremes"; performing artist: Billy Joel)

I remember the days when I was so eager to satisfy you ("... On The Radio (Remember The Days)"; performing artist: Nelly Furtado)

Hungry to touch, I'm eager to please ("Affair Of The Heart"; performing artist: Rick Springfield)

And filled my eager heart ("I'll Always Love You"; performing artist: Taylor Dayne)

The Eager Beaver (1946)

Johnny Eager (1941)

Eager Lips (1927)

18 and Eager to Please (2002)

Eager Beavers 2 (2000)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Chinese Cooking for Beginners: More Than 65 Recipes for the Eager Cook (Ethnic Kitchen) (reference)

• Eager Star (Winnie the Horse Gentler, Book 2) (reference)

• Eager Sumter (reference)

• Eager to Learn: Helping Children Become Motivated and Love Learning (Jossey-Bass Education Series/Social and Behavioral Science Series) (reference)

• Eager to Please: A Novel (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Penthouse: Euro Girls - Eager to Please (reference)

• Johnny Eager (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Eager (reference)

• Eager Beaver Boy (reference)

• Eager to Please (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Harriet felt this too much to utter more than a few words of eager exclamation.

There was a sound of many footsteps, and Alice looked round, eager to see the Queen.

One of the most surprising is the eager spoliation of the dead after a victory.

The vestry and chapel were peopled with eager masters and boys.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Most are shy, quiet, and eager to please the teacher. (references)

Many people with HD are eager and able to participate in activities outside the home. Therapeutic work and recreation centers give individuals an opportunity to pursue hobbies and interests and to meet new people. (references)

As a group, they tend to be shy, somewhat passive, and unlikely to take a leadership role. Although they do make friends with other children, they tend to have only a few friends at a time. Researchers also describe them as cooperative and eager to please. (references)

Business

Many Dominican importers are eager to represent foreign companies. (references)

Prospects are encouraging for foreign cosmetics and toiletries manufacturers eager to penetrate the Argentine market. (references)

When the country gets out of its current recession, there will be a large middle class eager to go out on shopping sprees. (references)

Economic History

West Bank

Local Palestinian businesses are eager to develop joint-venture arrangements. (references)

Poland

Polish workers are usually eager to work for foreign, especially American, companies. (references)

Lebanon

Many Lebanese firms are eager to form joint ventures or represent U.S. ICT companies. (references)

Political Economy

ALGERIA

Eager to lower its reliance on traditional suppliers, e.g. France, Algeria is actively seeking U.S. firms as suppliers of equipment, engineering expertise, technology, and capital. (references)

Latvia

Latvia is a stable democracy that has made tremendous strides since regaining its independence in 1991. Eager to join Euro-Trans-Atlantic institutions, such as NATO and the European Union, the Latvian Government has pressed forward with a number of political and economic reforms designed to bring the country into compliance with EU and NATO requirements. (references)

Trade

Turkey

Turkish leasing companies are eager to work with U.S. counterparts. (references)

Travel

Cote D'ivoire

Ivoirian air officials are eager to have the airport approved by the FAA for direct flights to and from the United States. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "eager": an eager beaver ♦ be eager ♦ be eager for ♦ be eager to begin ♦ be eager to do ♦ be eager to travel ♦ eager beaver ♦ eager evaluation ♦ eager for knowledge ♦ eager for the fray ♦ eager supporter ♦ eager to go ♦ eager to learn. Additional references.

Beginning with "eager": eager-eyed, eager-faced, eager-looking, eager-to-help, eager-to-impress.

Ending with "eager": over-eager.

Afrikaan

gretig (acquisitive, avid, eager for, greedy), belus (acquisitive, greedy), begerig (acquisitive, greedy). (various references)

Albanian

energjik (abuzz, active, aggressive, busily, dapper, drastic, dynamic, energetic, forceful, full of beans, get going, high-spirited, live, lively, peppy, punchy, pushing, rattling, snappy, stirring, sturdy, vigorous, vital, zippy), i paduruar (edgy, impatient, on edge, solicitous), i etur (agog, dry, keen, parched, rapacious, ravenous, solicitous, thirsty, voracious, wistful). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متلهف على, ‏متحمس (advocate, ardent, ardent supporter, eagerly intent, ebullient, enthusiast, enthusiastic, fanatic, fanatical, fervent, fervid, fiery, hot, hothead, impassioned, keen, passionate, strenuous, warm, zealot, zealous), ‏حماسي (ardent, enthusiast, enthusiastic, fervent, warm, zealous), ‏حريص (assiduous, calculating, circumspect, wishful), ‏تواق الى, ‏شخص متحمس. (various references)

Bulgarian 

страстен (amorous, enthusiastic, fervent, fierce, gutsy, impassioned, keen, libidinous, lustful, passional, passionate, sulphurous, sultry, vehement, violent), ревностен (ardent, earnest, fanatic, fanatical, fervent, intense, jealous, keen, mettled, mettlesome, openmouthed, painstaking, violent, zealous), който има силно желание, готов (fit, game, glib, ready, ready made, ready to wear, ready-for-service, ripe, set, store, unhesitating), нетърпелив (impatient), жаден (ambitious, avid, concupiscent, craving, droughty, dry, hungry, thirsty), алчен (accumulative, acquisitive, avid, covetous, gloating, grasping, having, miserly, moneygrubbing, rapacious, sordid). (various references)

Chinese 

踴躍 (enthusiastically), 热切, 切望 (crave, longing). (various references)

Czech

netrpìlivý (impatient, restless), nedoèkavý (impatient), horlivý (ardent, assiduous, fanatical, keen, spirited, strenuous, zealous), dychtivý (agog, anxious, expectant, keen), chtivý (avid, greedy, hungry). (various references)

Danish

datadrevet udførelse (data-driven control, data-driven execution, eager evaluation), datadrevet kontrol (data-driven control, data-driven execution, eager evaluation), datadrevet eksekvering (data-driven control, data-driven execution, eager evaluation). (various references)

Dutch

verlekkerd (acquisitive, greedy), happig (acquisitive, avid, greedy), gretig (acquisitive, avid, greedy), belust (acquisitive, avid, greedy), begerig (acquisitive, avid, greedy). (various references)

Esperanto

avida (avid, eager for, greedy). (various references)

Faeroese

grammur (acquisitive, greedy). (various references)

Farsi 

مشتاق (Agog, Anxious, Avid, Desirous, Earnest, Enthusiast, Enthusiastic, Fervid, Fond, Hippie, Hungry, Keen, Perfervid, Raring, Solicitous, Studious, Thirsty, Wilful, Wishful, Wistful), تردوشکننده , ذیعلاقه . (various references)

Finnish

ahne (acquisitive, greedy). (various references)

French

avide (eager for). (various references)

German

eifrig (assiduous, avid, avidly, busily, devotedly, eagerly, emulative, enthusiastic, full of zeal, industrious, intently, keen, painstaking, sedulous, studious, studiously, vehement, vigorous, zealous, zealously), begierig (acquisitive, avid, avidly, aware, desirous, desirously, greedy, hungry, keen, thirstily, thirsty, wishful). (various references)

Greek 

σφοδρόσ (intense, keen, splitting, strenuous, vehement, violent), πρόθυμοσ (complaisant, forward, game, neighborly, neighbourly, officious, prompt, ready, willing), ανυπόμονοσ (agog, anxious, impatient), διακαήσ (ardent, fervent). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"וט (avid, excited, fervent, keen, keyed up, solicitous), תאב (avid, craving, desirous, greedy, longing, thirsty), כמ�" (how many much, several, yearning), בעלן (avid, proprietor). (various references)

Hungarian

buzgó (devout, earnest, enthusiastic, fervent, fervid, forward, keen, sedulous, strenuous, zealous). (various references)

Indonesian

ingin sekali, hasrat (ambition, ardor, wish), adreng. (various references)

Italian

avido (acquisitive, athirst, avid, covetous, grasping, greedy, hungry, thirsty, voracious), bramoso (acquisitive, avid, covetous, greedy, hungry, longing, lustful, wishful, yearning). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

切 (acute, ardent, cut, earnest, keen, kind). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せつ (acute, ardent, earnest, filthy, keen, kind, node, occasion, section, temple, theory, time). (various references)

Korean 

열망하�". (various references)

Manx

jeean (ardent, businesslike, diligent, earnest, fervent, intense, intensive, keen, sudden, vehement, zealous), aggindagh (willing). (various references)

Norwegian

ivrig (fervent, keen, zealous). (various references)

Pig Latin

eageray.(various references)

Portuguese

sequioso (acquisitive, greedy, thirsty), sedento (acquisitive, athirst, greedy, thirsty), cobiçoso (acquisitive, covetous, greedy), cada vez (every time), ardente (ablaze, afire, aflame, aglow, alight, ardent, blazing, burning, feelingly, fervent, fervor, fierceness, fiery, flaming, het up, hot, hot-blooded, Hotspur, incantation, intense, keen, longing, passionate, scorching, torrid, tropic, tropical, vehement, volcanic, warm), ansioso (agitated, agog, anxious, avid, care-worn, hungry, impavid, longing, oppressing, preoccupated, solicitous, uneasy, wishful, wistful), ávido (acquisitive, appropriative, athirst, avid, edacious, grasping, greedy, hard set, hungry, jejunum, lickerish, rapacious, ravenous, wishful, wistful), a/vido. (various references)

Romanian

zelos (ardent, devout, earnest, fervent, gumptious, impassioned, intensely, zealous), viu (alive, animate, animated, breathing, bright, eternal, forcible, fresh, glowing, green, high, hot stuff, intense, intensely, live, lively, living, natural, never-fading, poignant, rapid, rich, smart, sprightly, strong, vivid, vividly), râvnitor (covetous, covetously, zealous), pasionat (ardent, avid, enthusiast, flaming, glowing, hot stuff, hot-blooded, impassioned, keen, maniac, passional, passionate, perfervid, tropical, warm), nerãbdãtor (agog, anxious, greedy, impatient, impatiently, petulant, solicitous), dornic (agog, anxious, desirous, greedy, wishful), doritor (desirous, keen, longing, thirsty), avid (avid, greedily, greedy, insatiable, rapacious), aprins (ablaze, aflame, aglow, alight, ardent, blazing, bright, brilliant, burning, fervent, fiery, glowing, hasty, heated, hot, hot-blooded, hothead, kindled, live, living, lurid, mercurial, passionate, peppery, perfervid, sharp, sudden, vehement, violent, vivid), înfocat (ardent, bright, enthusiastic, fervid, fiery, heated, hectic, hot, hot stuff, passionate, proud, red-hot), înflãcãrat (ardent, enthusiastic, fiery, flaming, glowing, hot, hot-blooded, passionate, perfervid, red-hot, tropical, warm blooded). (various references)

Russian 

стремящийся (anxious, aspiring, eager to), острый (acrid, acute, argute, arrowy, biting, bristling, edgy, hot, incisive, keen, lancinating, nice, peppery, poignant, pointed, punchy, pungent, quick, quinsy, racy, sharp, smart, tangy, trenchant, zappy), нетерпеливый (impatient), алчный (acquisitive, avaricious, avid, covetous, greedy). (various references)

Scottish

diogair, dil, dian (hasty, keen, vehement). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

željan (avid, covetous, craving, desirous, keen, wishful). (various references)

Spanish

ansioso (agog, anxious, avid, longing, sick, solicitous, yearning), ávido (acquisitive, appetent, athirst, avid, covetous, greedy, lickerish, niggardly, rapacious). (various references)

Swedish

ivrig (agog, anxious, ardent, avid, desirous, diligent, dying, earnest, fervent, fervid, great, keen, strenuous, strong, urgent, warm, willing, wisful, zealous). (various references)

Thai

กระตือรือร้น (ardent, dynamical, enthusiastic, keen, keen as mustard, lively). (various references)

Turkish

sabırsız (agog, impatient, on edge, rash, restive, solicitous), istekli (agog, ambitious, anxious, applicant, aspirant, athirst for, cheerful, covetous, dead set, desirous, devout, disposed, enthusiastic, forward, full of zeal, hellbent, inclinable, inclined, intense, intent, itching, itchy, keen, minded, ready, solicitous, strong, thirsty, voracious, willing, wishful, wistful), hevesli (ambitious, anxious, desirous, earnest, enthusiastic, full of zeal, game, great, greedy, hellbent, intent, itching, itchy, keen, responsive, spirited, studious, zealous), gayretli (arduous, as keen as mustard, assiduous, diligent, fervent, full of pep, full of vim, hardworking, industrious, persevering, sedulous, strenuous, studious, vigorous, zealous), ateşli (aglow, ardent, armed, burning, enthusiastic, febrile, fervent, fevered, feverish, fierce, fiery, flamboyant, flaming, gut, hectic, het up, hot, impassioned, in a glow, mettled, mettlesome, passionate, perfervid, racy, red-hot, skittish, sulphurous, sultry, torrid, vehement, zealous). (various references)

Turkmen 

yhlasly (zealous). (various references)

Ukranian 

крихкий (brash, brittle, flimsy, fragile, frail, friable, shivery), кислий (acerb, acerbic, acetous, acid, acidic, raised, sour, tart, vinegary), гострий (abrupt, acrid, acrimonious, acute, argute, bad, barbed, biting, edgy, incisive, keen, nimble, nutty, piercing, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick, savoury, sharp, splitting, subtile, subtle, trenchant, zestful), нетерплячий (impatient, intolerant, snorty), напружений (arduous, chilly, constrained, high pressure, hot, prim, stiff, strained, stressful, strung, sulfurous, sulphurous, tensional, tight, wrought up), енергійний (active, aggressive, arduous, deedful, energetic, energetical, fell, go ahead, managing, pithy, pushful, red blooded, spirited, spiritful, spirituous, strenuous, two-fisted, up and coming, zippy), палкий (ardent, darling, earnest, ebullient, fervent, fiery, high-spirited, hot-blooded, perfervid, rousing, warm, warm blooded, zealous). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thiết tha (greedy, keen), ham (lickerish), hăm hở (strenuous), háo hức. (various references)

Welsh

awyddus (anxious, desirous, zealous), awyddfrydig, awchus (ardent, greedy, keen, sharp). (various references)

acer, alacer, alacri, appetentes, ardescebant, arserit, contenta, contenti, contentus, expetens, instante, instantem, instantes, instantia, instantibus, instantis, intenta, intentae, intente, intentus, intrepidus, prompta, prompti, promptiores, promptissima, prompto, promptum, promptus, studiose, studiosis, studiosissime. (various references)

â-mananghô. (various references)

eallgearo, fus, georn, geornful. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "eager": eagerer, eagerest, eagerly, eagerness, eagernesses, eagers. (additional references)

Words ending with "eager": meager, overeager, uneager. (additional references)

Words containing "eager": meagerly, meagerness, meagernesses, overeagerness, overeagernesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Eager" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aega, aeger, ager, Ahagger, Azagury, Dejager, eage, eagel, eagers, Eagil, eago, eaker, earer, eaver, eeer, eegre, egae, Egler, Egner, egor, Eige, eiger, Eigler, eigre, ekger, elage, elager, Elger, emgre, enger, esgre, Etage, euer, Euge, fager, Keage, neager, realgar, seagar, teager, vager, zager, Zeiger. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: agree, eagre, ragee.

-1 letter: agee, ager, eger, gear, gree, rage.

-2 letters: age, are, ear, era, ere, erg, gae, gar, gee, rag, ree, reg.

-3 letters: ae, ag, ar, er, re.

+1 letter: agreed, agrees, barege, bargee, dragee, eagers, eagres, enrage, ergate, galere, geared, genera, grease, greave, jaeger, meager, meagre, ragees, raggee, regale, regave, regear, reggae.

+2 letters: acreage, aerogel, alleger, angered, auberge, avenger, average, bareges, bargees, brewage, degrade, derange, dragees, eagerer, eagerly, engager, engrave, enlarge, enraged, enrages, ergates, etagere, galeres, general, gerbera, germane, gleamer, gleaner, grandee, grantee, greased, greaser, greases, greaten, greater, greaved, greaves, grenade, herbage, jaegers, lagered, leaguer, negater, overage, peerage, preaged, pregame, presage, pugaree, raggees, ragweed, reagent, reargue, rebegan, regaled, regaler, regales, regauge, regears, reggaes, reginae, reglaze, regrade, regrate, reimage, restage, serfage, uneager, wagered, wagerer.

+3 letters: absterge, acreages, aerogels, aggrieve, agreeing, aigrette, algerine, allegers, allergen, amperage, anergies, asperges, auberges, avengers, averaged, averages, badgered, bargemen, beggared, beverage, brakeage, breakage, bregmate, brewages, carageen, coverage, creepage, daggered, dangered, degasser, degraded, degrader, degrades, degrease, deranged, deranges, derogate, disagree, dogeared, dressage, dungaree, eagerest, eelgrass, eglatere, emigrate, endanger, engagers, engramme, engraved, engraver, engraves, enlarged, enlarger, enlarges, ergative, estrange, etageres, exergual, ferriage, figeater, filagree, gadarene, gamester, gandered, gangrene, gardened, gardener, garnered, gartered, gaselier, gathered, gatherer, gearcase, gearless, gendarme, generals, generate, gerberas, gesneria, gheraoed, gheraoes, gleamers, gleamier, gleaners, graecize, grandees, grantees, grapheme, gratinee, graveled, greasers, greasier, greatens, greatest, greenway, grenades, hardedge, headgear, herbages, heritage, interage, jaggeder, laagered, largesse, layerage, leaguers, leverage, meagerly, meagrely, meterage, negaters, overaged, overages, pargeted, peerages, perigeal, perigean, prelegal, presaged, presager, presages, pugarees, puggaree, raggeder, ragweeds, razeeing, reagents, reargued, reargues, rechange, recharge, redamage, redargue, reengage, regained, regainer, regalers, regarded, regather, regauged, regauges, regeared, regelate, regental, reglazed, reglazes, regraded, regrades, regrated, regrates, regulate, rehanged, reimaged, reimages, relegate, renegade, renegado, restaged, restages, retagged, retarget, saggered, sangaree, serfages, sergeant, sewerage, shagreen, steerage, targeted, teenager, telegram, underage, verbiage, wagerers, waterage, wreckage.

+4 letters: absterged, absterges, agentries, aggregate, aggressed, aggresses, aggrieved, aggrieves, agreeable, agreeably, agreement, aigrettes, algerines, allergens, allergies, amperages, angerless, argentine, argentite, arrearage, aubergine, augmenter, averagely, barrelage, beachgoer, beavering, bedraggle, beggaries, begroaned, beleaguer, bereaving, beverages, brakeages, breakages, brokerage, carageens, careening, careering, caregiver, carrageen, cellarage, cigarette, cooperage, coverages, creepages, curettage, degassers, degausser, degraders, degreased, degreaser, degreases, delegator, demurrage, denigrate, deraigned, derogated, derogates, desugared, disagreed, disagrees, dressages, dungarees, eagerness, earwigged, eggbeater, eglateres, embargoed, embargoes, embrangle, emigrated, emigrates, encourage, endangers, endearing, engrafted, engrailed, engrained, engrammes, engravers, enlargers, entangler, entourage, estranged, estranger, estranges, everglade, exchanger, expurgate, farseeing, ferriages, figeaters, filagreed, filagrees, flowerage, forestage, forgeable, fosterage, gaberdine, gadgeteer, galleried, galleries, gamesters, gangrened, gangrenes, garagemen, gardeners, garderobe, garmented, garnishee, gaseliers, gasometer, gatherers, gaucherie, gauderies, gauffered, gazetteer, gearboxes, gearcases, gearwheel, gendarmes, generable, generally, generated, generates, generator, geomancer, germander, germanely, germanize, germinate, gesneriad, glandered, graceless, gradeless, graecized, graecizes, grapelike, graperies, grapevine, graphemes, gratineed, gratinees, graveless, gravelled, graveness, graveside, grazeable, greasiest, greatened, greatness, greenback, greengage, greenhead, greenmail, greensand, greenways, gregarine, grenadier, grenadine, grievance, guarantee, habergeon, hardedges, headgears, heritages, hermitage, imageries, integrate, jaggeries, largeness, largesses, laveering, layerages, leaguered, legalizer, legendary, leveraged, leverages, margented, megahertz, megaspore, menagerie, merganser, meterages, mortgagee, operagoer, orangeade, orangerie, organelle, overeager, overglaze, overgraze, overlarge, parentage, pargetted, passenger, personage, pilferage, porbeagle, porterage, pregnable, presagers, puggarees, raggedest, realigned, rearrange, rechanged, rechanges, recharged, recharger, recharges, recoinage, rectangle, redamaged, redamages, redargued, redargues, reearning, reengaged, reengages, reengrave, regainers, regathers, regearing, regelated, regelates, regrafted, regranted, regulated, regulates, rehearing, reheating, reimagine, releasing, relegated, relegates, renegaded, renegades, renegados, repackage, repassage, repealing, repeating, repechage, reportage, rereading, resealing, reseating, retargets, reteaming, retearing, revealing, reweaving, sacrilege, sangarees, scavenger, segregant, segregate, sergeancy, sergeants, sergeanty, sewerages, shagreens, sloganeer, staggered, staggerer, steerages, stingaree, subgenera, swaggered, swaggerer, tangerine, teargases, teenagers, telegrams, telegraph, teratogen, tragedies, treillage, unaverage, underages, variegate, verbiages, verglases, viceregal, vinegared, waggeries, waterages, wreckages.

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