Keen

Definition: Keen

Keen

Adjective

1. Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations".

2. Intense or sharp; "suffered exquisite pain"; "felt exquisite pleasure".

3. Very penetrating and clear and sharp in operation; "an incisive mind"; "a keen intelligence"; "of sharp and active intellect".

4. (informal) very good; "a bully pulpit"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing".

5. As physically painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "lancinating pain".

6. Having a sharp cutting edge or point; "a keen blade".

Noun

1. (Irish) a funeral lament sung with loud wailing.

Verb

1. Express grief verbally.

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

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

Synonyms: Keen

Cold

Adjective: cold, cool; chill, chilly; icy; gelid, frigid, algid; fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching; clay-cold; starved. (made cold); chilled to the bone, shivering. Verb: aguish, transi de froid; frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped.

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.

Feeling

Warm, quick, lively, smart, strong, sharp, acute, cutting, piercing, incisive; keen, keen as a razor; trenchant, pungent, racy, piquant, poignant, caustic.

Intelligence Wisdom

Adjective: intelligent, quick of apprehension, keen, acute, alive, brainy, awake, bright, quick, sharp; quick witted, keen witted, clear witted, sharp- eyed, sharp sighted, sharp witted; wide-awake; canny, shrewd, astute; clear-headed; farsighted; discerning, perspicacious, penetrating, piercing; argute; quick-witted, nimble-witted, needle-witted; sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack; alive to; (cognizant); clever; (apt); arch; (cunning); pas si bete; acute.

Physical Energy

Adjective: strong, energetic, forcible, active; intense, deep-dyed, severe, keen, vivid, sharp, acute, incisive, trenchant, brisk.

Physical Sensibility

Acute, sharp, keen, vivid, lively, impressive, thin-skinned.

Sharpness

Cutting; sharp edged, knife edged; sharp as a razor, keen as a razor; sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack; sharpened; Verb: set

Adjective: sharp, keen; acute; acicular, aciform; aculeated, acuminated; pointed; tapering; conical, pyramidal; mucronate, mucronated; spindle shaped, needle shaped; spiked, spiky, ensiform, peaked, salient; cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated; cornute, cornuted, cornicultate; prickly; spiny, spinous, spicular; thorny, bristling, muricated, pectinated, studded, thistly, briary; craggy; (rough); snaggy, digitated, two-edged, fusiform; dentiform, denticulated; toothed; odontoid; starlike; stellated, stelliform; sagittate, sagittiform; arrowheaded; arrowy, barbed, spurred.

Wind

Gust, blast, squall, gale, half a gale, storm, tempest, hurricane, whirlwind, tornado, samiel, cyclone, anticyclone, typhoon; simoon, simoom; harmattan, monsoon, trade wind, sirocco, mistral, bise, tramontane, levanter; capful of wind; fresh breeze, stiff breeze; keen blast; blizzard, barber, candelia, chinook, foehn, khamsin, norther, vendaval, wuther.

Wit

Phrase: adhibenda est in jocando moderatio; "gentle dullness ever loves a joke"; "leave this keen encounter of our wits"; just joking, just kidding; "surely you jest!".

Crosswords: Keen

Luxembourgish (no), Somali (bring).

Mr. Helpmann, I'm keen to get into Information Retrieval (Brazil; writing credit: Terry Gilliam; Charles McKeown)

Keen of eye, swift of thought, and regular of bowel (The Thin Blue Line; writing credit: Ben Elton)

Actually Dwight, I'd recommend having your mother killed by one. After that happened I developed a rather keen interest in the subject (Natural Born Killers; writing credit: David Veloz)

Peachy keen, jellybean (Grease; writing credit: Jim Jacobs; Warren Casey)

I mean keen! It feels really keen (Muppet Babies; writing credit: Katherine Lawrence; Jeffrey Scott)

Oh Bennie she's really keen (Bennie And The Jets; performing artist: Elton John)

Your friends seem to think that you're so peachy keen (What Have You Done For Me Lately; performing artist: Janet Jackson)

A lotta sad people thinkin’ that’s mighty keen (Thank God I’m A Country Boy; performing artist: John Denver)

My fist got hard and my wits got keen, (A Boy Named Sue; performing artist: Johnny Cash)

Keen Sense Of Humor: Knows a lot of dirty jokes. (references; author: unknown)

Catskinner Keen (1973)

Too Keen a Sense of Humour (1911)

Keen Eddie (2003)

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

Books

• Italy Keen on Online Banking Offerings [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Keen and Violent Remedies: Social Satire and the Grotesque in Masuccio Salernitano's "Novellino" (reference)

• Keen of Philadelphia: The Collected Memoirs of William Williams Keen, Jr. (reference)

• Robert Earl Keen Songbook (reference)

• The Public Papers of Governor Keen Johnson, 1939-1943 (reference)

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Periodicals

• Keen Ager News (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

High Tech

• Commander Keen (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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

Staff Sgt. Hale Lewis, crew chief, works inside the exhaust of a F-16C/D Nov. 12, 2002. He is with the 35th Fighter Squadron, Kunsan Air Base, South Korea. Lewis is taking part in this year's Exercise Keen Sword 03 being held in Tsuiki Air Base, Japan.

An F-16 jet fighter, 35 fighter Squadron, from Kunsan Air Base, Korea, takes off from Tsuiki AB, Japan, to engage Japanese jet fighters in an aerial training exercise in support of Keen Sword 03 on Nov. 12, 2002. Keen Sword is a bilateral defense exercis.

Senior U.S. officers watching operations from the bridge of USS Augusta (CA-31), off Normandy, 8 June 1944. They are (from left to right): Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk, USN, Commander Western Naval Task Force; Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley, U.S. Army, Commanding General, U.S. First Army; Rear Admiral Arthur D. Struble, USN, (with binoculars) Chief of Staff for RAdm. Kirk; and Major General Hugh Keen, U.S. Army. Credit: NAVY.

The man gave Peggy a long keen look as though searching his memory. Credit: Library of Congress.

If you're so keen on getting married, for goodness sake, why don't you take that young Strangeways?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Fort Benning machine gunners. Lieutenant of a machine gun outfit and a keen, capable soldier. He is studying the factor of a military problem at Fort Benning, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Brigadier General Barnes. Brigadier General Barnes, Assistant Chief of Ordnance U.S. Army, and head of the Design Division of the U.S. War Department is now touring Ministry of Supply Munition factories. General Barnes taking keen interest in the work of. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bargains are the keynote at the Hardwick victory store and here are seen some of the women folk who know a bargain when they see one. Because it helps the war effort, it makes the buying just that more keen. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Still any mind, that has had in this life any keen interest, not in itself sinful, will surely find itself some congenial line of work hereafter

Yeah, well, maybe I don't feel so keen on doing it all of a sudden

Very soon, however, his look became keen and penetrative

Fauchelevent, illiterate, but very keen, understood that he had to do with a very formidable species, a good talker

Every impure thought, deliberately yielded to, is a keen lance transfixing that sacred and loving heart

The reader will easily believe, that from what I had heard and seen, my keen appetite for perpetuity of life was much abated

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Competition is extremely keen in the building and construction sectors. (references)

It is expected that there will be keen interest by foreign companies in the privatization process. (references)

Also, the majority of end-users are not very keen on using the Internet when making their travel arrangements. (references)

Economic History

Yemen

The demand for small generators up to 2 MW is keen. (references)

Lebanon

MEW is keen to develop a Water Master Plan for Lebanon. (references)

Moldova

Moldova is particularly keen on attracting hi-tech investment. (references)

Trade

Georgia

There is every indication that the Georgian authorities will be keen to resolve standards-related problems. (references)

Jordan

The CBJ is keen on stimulating the local capital market, particularly where long-term project finance is required. (references)

Travel

Portugal

Aggressiveness is not yet keen in marketing because it may be interpreted as socially offensive. (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.

Keen

Expressions using "keen": a keen wind ♦ as keen as mustard ♦ be keen on ♦ be keen on an idea ♦ be keen to ♦ be keen to do ♦ have a keen sense of hearing ♦ keen as a razor ♦ keen competition ♦ keen edge ♦ keen frost ♦ keen insight ♦ keen intelligence ♦ keen interest ♦ keen of hearing ♦ keen on ♦ keen on getting married ♦ keen on sport ♦ keen point ♦ keen price ♦ keen prices ♦ keen wind ♦ very keen. Additional references.

Beginning with "keen": keen-edged, keen-eyed, keen-minded, keen-scented, keen-sensed, keen-set, keen-sighted, keen-tempered, keen-witted.

Ending with "keen": k-keen, knife-keen, mad-keen, not-to-keen, over-keen, peachy-keen, razor-keen, ultra-keen.

Afrikaans

lewendig (adroit, agile, alert, brisk). (various references)

Albanian

tifoz (buff, enthusiast, enthusiastic, fan, fanatic, lover), therës (acid, acidly, acrimonious, acute, biting, butcher, caustic, cutting, dry, epigrammatic, executioner, exquisite, incisive, nippy, penetrating, peppery, piercing, poignant, sharp, sharp cut, stinging, trenchant), që të pret (bitter, cutting, nippy, piercing), i mprehtë (acute, astute, bright, clairvoyant, Clarion, discerning, edgy, exquisite, fine, high, high pitched, incisive, ingenious, keen-witted, knowing, nimble, penetrating, penetrative, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, piercing, piping, pointed, pungent, quick, ridged, ridgy, sagacious, salt, sharp, sharp cut, shrill, subtile, subtle, tart, trenchant), i mirë (benign, canny, carriageable, decent, desirable, fine, gentle, good, good tempered, goodly, handsome, kind, kindhearted, kindly, lovely, nice, pleasant, pukka, salable, tops, virtuous), i hollë (dainty, delicate, dinky, discerning, egg shell, exquisite, flimsy, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, ingenious, liny, meager, meagre, nice, paper, papery, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, politic, sleazy, slender, slim, small, spidery, spindling, spindly, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin, Twiggy, washy), i gjallë (above ground, alive, animate, animated, breathing, brisk, buckish, buoyant, busy, canty, colorful, colourful, crude, dapper, dashing, dynamic, elastic, erect, fresh, frisky, glowing, graphic, graphical, green, humming, intense, jocund, larky, live, lively, living, mercurial, nimble, noisy, perky, pert, picturesque, playful, poignant, quick, raw, red blooded, saucy, skittish, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, spry, uncooked, vital, vivacious, vivid), i fortë (able bodied, adamant, adamantine, brawny, cast iron, cogent, decuman, Doughty, durable, endurable, enduring, fast, fierce, firm, flinty, forceful, Hale, hard, Hardy, heavy duty, high pitched, intense, intensive, lancinating, nervous, oaky, potent, powerful, red blooded, refractory, resistant, robust, rocky, rough, rugged, screamy, serviceable, sharp, smart, solid, sound, spanking, stable, staunch, steely, stentorian, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, swashing, swingeing, tenable, tenacious, tough, two-fisted, vehement, vigorous, violent, virile, virulent, well-built, well-set), i etur (agog, dry, eager, parched, rapacious, ravenous, solicitous, thirsty, voracious, wistful), i ashpër (argute, austere, biting, bluff, bluffy, Brant, bristly, brusque, churlish, coarse, crude, ding-dong, dour, draconian, draconic, gravelly, grim, gruff, hard, harsh, ill, ill natured, inclement, malevolent, pipy, raucous, rigid, rigorous, rough, rough and ready, rude, savage, scabrous, scathing, scratchy, severe, shaggy, slashing, smart, stern, strict, tough, truculent, uncharitable, unkind, unmerciful, violent, wiry), depërtues (clairvoyant, penetrating, penetrative, pervasive, piercing, searching). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فطن (acute, astute, clever, discern, discerning, sagacious, shrewd, smart, sober up), ‏متوقد (ardent, glowing, knowledgeable), ‏متحمس (advocate, ardent, ardent supporter, eager, eagerly intent, ebullient, enthusiast, enthusiastic, fanatic, fanatical, fervent, fervid, fiery, hot, hothead, impassioned, passionate, strenuous, warm, zealot, zealous), ‏لاذع (acerb, acid, acrid, acrimonious, biting, bitter, bitterly, burning, caustic, cutting, harsh, hot, mordant, nippy, peppery, piquant, poignant, pungent, rough, salty, sarcastic, savory, savoury, scathing, scorching, sharp, sharp tongued, smarting, snappish, snappy, spicy, spiteful, stinging, tart, waspish), ‏قوي (able bodied, acute, athletic, brawny, burly, forceful, forcible, full-bodied, furious, generous, hardy, hearty, heavy duty, husky, incorrodible, intense, intensive, lively, lusty, manly, mighty, muscular, pithy, potent, powered, powerful, precious, pronounced, reliable, robust, rude, sledge hammer, spanking, staunch, stern, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, telling, tight, tough, trig, vehement, vigorous, violent, virtuous, vivid, youthful), ‏قاطع (boycott, break away, categorical, chip, conclusive, decisive, definite, disruption, disturb, dogmatic, edgy, final, have no truck with, incisive, interrupt, partition, peremptory, positive, sharp, unqualified), ‏حامية (escort, garrison, plastron), ‏حاد (abrupt, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, avid, be sharp, biting, brisk, clear, cutting, exquisite, heavy, incisive, intense, intensified, intensive, loud, nasal, penetrating, petulant, piercing, piquant, pithy, poignant, pointed, prompt, pronounced, pungent, quick, ripe, rough, salty, severe, sharp, shrill, squeaky, strident, strong, trenchant), ‏تحمس ل (drool), ‏عول (moan, pule, ram, responsibility, snivel, sustenance, ululate, wail), ‏عبر بالندب و العويل, ‏ثاقب (acute, boring, hand drill, penetrating, perforator, piercing, sagacious, sharp), ‏شديد (acute, biting, boisterous, brusque, cordial, crass, dense, excruciating, extreme, forte, intense, intensive, lusty, rigorous, shrill, stern, strong, telling, tempestuous, terrible, vehement, vicious, violent), ‏دقيق (accurate, careful, close, delicate, elaborate, exact, express, farina, fine, flour, inappreciable, infinitesimal, intangible, just, mathematical, meal, nearness, nice, painstaking, particular, pernickety, precise, punctilious, punctual, rigorous, scrupulous, searching, sharp, sound, specific, straightforward, strict, ticklish, tiny, touchy, tricky, true, veracious), ‏باتر (trenchant). (various references)

Bulgarian 

страстен (amorous, eager, enthusiastic, fervent, fierce, gutsy, impassioned, libidinous, lustful, passional, passionate, sulphurous, sultry, vehement, violent), спаднал, ревностен (ardent, eager, earnest, fanatic, fanatical, fervent, intense, jealous, mettled, mettlesome, openmouthed, painstaking, violent, zealous), който се стреми, който силно желае (impatient), остър (acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, angular, argute, arrowy, biting, bitter, crusty, cutting, edgy, excruciating, fine, fulminating, gabled, grating, gravelly, grinding, high pitched, lancinating, metallic, nice, nipping, nippy, penetrating, penetrative, peppery, perspicacious, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, ragged, searching, sharp, shrill, slashing, stiff, strident, strong, tangy, trenchant), ожесточен (acrid, bitter, stiff, warm), оплакване на мъртвец, нисък (base, grave, low, low-browed, low-pitched, short, thickset), енергичен (active, arduous, brisk, demon, driving, energetic, enterprising, firm, go-go, hearty, live, nervous, pithy, pushing, red blooded, robust, sharp, smart, snappy, spanking, spicy, spirited, spunky, strong-minded, up and coming, vigorous, vital, youthful, zappy, zippy), пронизващ (cutting, harsh, raw, searching, strident, thrilling), пронизителен (acute, argute, penetrating, piercing, piping, screamy, shrill), интензивен (acute, intense, intensive). (various references)

Chinese 

敏銳 , 敏�"� (Acuity, Acumen, Observant, shrewd), 敏 . (various references)

Czech

vášnivý (ardent, avid, fervent, heated, impassioned, inveterate, passional, passionate, red-hot, sultry, torrid, vehement, violent), prudký (abrupt, acrimonious, big, bulge, effervescent, ferocious, fierce, fiery, glaring, grievous, gusty, heady, heated, heavy, high, hot tempered, hot-headed, impetuous, intense, passional, passionate, peppery, rapid, rash, robust, rude, sharp, steep, stormy, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, towering, tumultuous, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent), prudce (heatedly, sharp, strongly, vigorously, violently), pronikavý (biting, grating, high pitched, incisive, penetrable, penetrating, pervasive, piercing, pungent, screechy, shrill, strident, sweeping), ostrý (abrupt, acrid, acute, biting, crisp, ferocious, fierce, glib, hard, harsh, high pitched, hot, incisive, intense, piercing, poignant, pointed, rigorous, sharp, shrill, smart, snappy, spicy, strident, tart, tough, trenchant), ostře (sharp, sharply), nadšený (dedicated, enthusiastic, glowing, great, passionate, rapturous, rousing, thrilled, wholehearted, zealous, zestful), horlivý (ardent, assiduous, eager, fanatical, spirited, strenuous, zealous), dychtivý (agog, anxious, eager, expectant), bystrý (acute, alert, astute, bright, discerning, exquisite, keen-witted, nimble, penetrating, perspicacious, quick, quick-witted, sagacious, sharp-witted, shrewd, smart, subtle), řezavý (strident). (various references)

Danish

livlig (adroit, agile, alert, brisk). (various references)

Dutch

rap (adroit, agile, alert, brisk), levendig (adroit, agile, alert, brisk), kwiek (adroit, agile, alert, brisk), kras (adroit, agile, alert, brisk), druk (adroit, agile, alert, brisk, busy, edition, pressure, print). (various references)

Esperanto

vigla (alert, brisk). (various references)

Faeroese

kátur (adroit, agile, airy-fairy, alert, brisk, cheerful, frolic, frolicsome, gay, merry, petulant), vakin (adroit, agile, alert, brisk), lívligur (adroit, agile, alert, brisk). (various references)

Farsi 

پرزور (Potent, Strong, Vigorous), مشتاق (Agog, Anxious, Avid, Desirous, Eager, Earnest, Enthusiast, Enthusiastic, Fervid, Fond, Hippie, Hungry, Perfervid, Raring, Solicitous, Studious, Thirsty, Wilful, Wishful, Wistful), نوحه سراءی کردن , حاد (Acute, Hot, Torrid), تیزکردن (Grind, Point, Sharp, Sharpen, Whet), تیز (Acute, Bitter, Brisk, Caustic, Glassy, Hot, Incisive, Pike, Poignant, Pointy, Pungent, Sharp, Shrill, Trenchant), تند (Caustic, Discourteous, Fast, Glassy, Harsh, Hasty, Headlong, Heady, Hot, Inflammable, Intensive, Paregoric, Peppery, Presto, Pungent, Quick, Racy, Rapid, Rash, Slush, Sour, Spicy, Tart, Transient, Violent, Virulent, Wrench, Yare), زیرک (Acute, Adroit, Agile, Alert, Astute, Brilliant, Cagey, Canny, Clever, Cunning, Gash, Perspicacious, Sagacious, Sharp, Shrewd, Smart, Subtle, Uncanny), شدیدکردن (Heighten), شدیدبودن , شدید (Boisterous, Chronic, Diametrical, Drastic, Exquisite, Grievous, Hard, Inclement, Intense, Intensive, Rigorous, Rugged, Severe, Sopping, Stalwart, Strenuous, Tough, Vehement, Vigorous, Violent), باهوش (Bright, Clever, Ingenious, Intelligent, Precocious, Sagacious, Shrewd, Smart, Spiffy, Spry, Swish, Understanding). (various references)

Finnish

tiukka (close, hard, severe, strict, tight, tightly woven), terävä (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, sharp), tarkka (accurate, careful, close, detailed, economical, exact, particular, precise, sharp, strict, sure), innostunut (enthusiastic, interested), innokas (ardent, eager, enthusiastic, interested, zealous). (various references)

French

vif. (various references)

German

scharf (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acridly, acrimonious, acute, biting, bitter, caustic, clear, closely, cool, cracking, cutting, discerning, drastic, ferocious, fierce, fiery, hard, harsh, highly seasoned, horny, hot, incisive, keenly, live, lurid, marked, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, piercingly, poignant, poignantly, precise, pungent, pungently, quick, Randy, raw, razor-sharp, savage, scathing, scathingly, severe, sexy, sharp, sharp-edged, sharply, shrewd, shrill, sibilant, slashing, spanking, strict, strong, tangy, tart, tough, trenchant, twangy, vehement, venomous, virulent), eifrig (assiduous, avid, avidly, busily, devotedly, eager, eagerly, emulative, enthusiastic, full of zeal, industrious, intently, painstaking, sedulous, studious, studiously, vehement, vigorous, zealous, zealously). (various references)

Greek 

κοπτερόσ (incisive, sharp, trenchant), κοφτερόσ (edgy, incisive, keen on, sharp, trenchant), σφοδρόσ (eager, intense, splitting, strenuous, vehement, violent), μοιρολόγι, μοιρολογώ (bewail, lament), ενδιαφερόμενος (interested), τσουχτερόσ (crisp, nipping, nippy, piquant, pungent, spicy), οξύσ (acid, acute, crucial, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidated, pang, penetrating, piercing, piked, piping, pointed, pungent, screechy, sharp, shrill, smart, trenchant, twang), οξυδερκής (acute, discriminating, perceptive, sharp), δριμύσ (acrid, acrimonious, astringent, biting, caustic, hard, harsh, poignant, pungent, scathing, severe, slashing, smart, snappish, snappy, tart, trenchant). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"וט (avid, eager, excited, fervent, keyed up, solicitous), ש� ון (ingenious, learning, memorizing, pointed, repetition, revision, salty, sharp, subtle, whetting, witty), ח�" (acute, biting, mordant, pointed, sharp), חריף מוח (acute, biting, sharp, sharpwitted, witty), � מרץ (dashing, definite, dynamic, energetic, forcible, snappy, spirited, sturdy, tearing, trenchant, vigorous), � ל�"ב (animated, ardent, devotee, ebullient, enthusiast, enthusiastic, excited, fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, zealous). (various references)

Hungarian

lelkes (ardent, eager, ebullient, effervescent, enthusiastic, expansive, impassioned, raptured, rapturous, soulful, zealous), heves (acute, boisterous, explosive, fervent, fervid, fulmination, heady, heated, hot, hot-tempered, impetuous, intense, mettled, mettlesome, passionate, poignant, rampageous, sanguine, short tempered, snoring, to run the gauntlet of adverse criticism, vehement, warm), szúró (smart, tingling, tingly), intenzív (zappy, zippy), hegyes (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, edgy, fine, hilly, lurid, mountainous, peaky, poignant, pointed, pointy, rangy, sharp, sharp-edged, spiked, spiky, tapering), buzgó (devout, eager, earnest, enthusiastic, fervent, fervid, forward, sedulous, strenuous, zealous), éles (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, clangorous, crispy, cutting, edgy, harsh, have a keen edge, high pitched, incisive, live, lurid, nipping, nippy, penetrating, perspicacious, plucky, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick, reedy, rough, sarky, sharp, sharp-edged, shrewd, shrill, slashing, snap, squall, strident, to highlight, trenchant), élénk (active, adroit, agile, alert, alive, animated, astir, bobbish, breezy, brisk, busy, cant, canty, cheerful, chipper, chirpy, frisky, high colour, live, lively, loud cheers, mercurial, nimble, nippy, perky, picturesque, quick, racy of the soil, rattling, saucy bit, skittish, spruce, to be in high spirits, vigorous, vivacious, vivid, warm). (various references)

Indonesian

keras (crusty, hard, heady, killing, loud, rigorous, severe, strict, stringent, tang, wicked), tekun (assiduous, diligent), tajam (acrid, acrimonious, acute, brisk, edgy, incisive, nippy, poignant), sengit (acrid, acrimonious, violent), celi (careful precise, sharp eyed). (various references)

Irish

féigh. (various references)

Italian

volenteroso (willing), tagliente (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, biting, clipping, cutting, edgy, lurid, nipping, sharp, slicing, stridently, trenchant), sottile (delicate, fine, gaunt, lean, sharp, shrewd, slender, slight, slim, small, subtile, subtle, thin), penetrante (discerning, drenching, fine, incisive, penetrating, pervasive, piercing, piping, pointed, searching, sharp), nitido (acute, caustic, clear, limpid, perspicuous, sharp, well-defined), intenso (deep, high, intense, intensive, poignant, profound, rich, severe), forte (aloud, big, brawny, deep, Doughty, fast, fastness, forceful, Fort, forte, hard, hardly, heavy, hefty, high, hot, living, loud, loudly, mighty, nervous, nervy, potent, puissant, racy, robust, rugged, severe, short, shrewd, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, tough, vigorous), appassionato (ardent, eager, enthusiast, fan, fond, heated, impassioned, interested, lover, passionate, sultry), ansioso (agog, anxious, desirous, desirously, eager, longing, longingly, nervous, uneasy), amante (amateur, fond, lover, lover of, lovingly, man), aguzzo (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, lurid, peaked, pointed, sharp), affilato (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, cutting, edgy, lurid, sharp, thin), acuto (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, cute, discerning, discriminating, high, high note, high pitched, incisive, intense, lancinating, lurid, nasty, neat, penetrating, piercing, piping, poignant, pointed, severe, sharp, shrewd, shrill). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

俊敏 (quick-witted). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しゅ�"び�" (quick-witted), さいり (sharp), つうせつ (acute, common opinion, prevailing view), せつ (acute, ardent, eager, earnest, filthy, kind, node, occasion, section, temple, theory, time). (various references)

Korean 

치열한. (various references)

Manx

shleeuit (ground, keen-minded, sharpened, whetted, wide-awake), jeean (ardent, businesslike, diligent, eager, earnest, fervent, intense, intensive, sudden, vehement, zealous), geyragh (sharp, sourish), geayr (acid, acidific, sharp, sour), foyral (incisive, sharp, sharp-edged), foyragh (cutting, edged, incisive, mordant, sharp, sharp-edged, steely). (various references)

Norwegian

skarp (acute), ivrig (eager, fervent, zealous). (various references)

Pig Latin

eenkay.(various references)

Portuguese

vivo (above-ground, active, acute, adroit, agile, alert, alive, argute, bobbish, bouncing, brainy, breezy, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, clear-sighted, clinking, coltish, cork, corky, crisp, dapper, diagram, fervent, frisky, gaudy, gay, graphic, graphical, hasty, hurry, intense, juicy, kittenish, knowing, light, lightsome, live, lively, living, luminous, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, nimble, nippy, parky, perky, pert, picturesque, poignant, quick, racy, rattling, resilient, shrewd, smart, spanking, speaking, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, subtil, subtile, subtle, swift, swift-handed, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, watchful, zippy), afiado (acerbic, acuminate, clear-sighted, sharp). (various references)

Romanian

insuportabil (aggravating, beyond endurance, exquisite, fierce, impossible, insufferable, insupportable, obnoxious, obnoxiously, oppressive, outrageous, past endurance, trying, unbearable, unbearably, unendurable), ahtiat (crazy), ascuţit (acute, argute, biting, clipping, edged, edgy, fast, fine, high, high pitched, keenly, knife-edged, mordacious, peaked, piercing, poignant, pointed, pointedly, pungent, quick, screaming, sharp, shrewd, shrill, smart, spiky, stinging, subtle, trenchant, whetted, witty), aspru (abrupt, abruptly, acid, acrimonious, biting, brisk, callous, clumsy, coarse, crisp, dour, drastic, earthy, edgy, exacting, firm, grating, gruelling, gruff, hard, harsh, hoarse, homespun, husky, ill, inclement, iron, iron-fisted, lashing, nippy, obdurate, punitive, rasping, rigid, rigidly, rigorous, robust, rough, rugged, scabrous, severe, severely, shaggy, shy, smart, snappish, stern, stiff, Strait, strict, strong, stubborn, tough, unkind, violent, wiry), bocet (dirge, groans, lament, lamentation, threnody, wail, wailing), care taie bine, coborât, doritor (desirous, eager, longing, thirsty), acut (acute, acutely, intense, shrewd, violent), fin (beautiful, choice, delicate, delicately, discriminating, excellent, fine, fine-drawn, finely, fine-spun, godchild, godson, gossamer, graceful, nice, penetrating, quick, refined, select, sharp, shrewd, slender, soft, spidery, subtile, subtly, tenuous), tãios (acid, biting, clipping, curt, cutting, edgy, mordacious, nippy, pointed, roughly, severe, severely, sharp, sharply, shortly, spiky, tart, trenchant), inteligent (apprehensive, argute, brainy, bright, clever, comprehensive, cute, intelligent, lively, luminous, neat, nimbly, politic, sagacious, sage, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, understanding), intens (arduous, cut throat, deep, exquisite, heavy, high, intense, intensely, intensive, powerful, saturated, severe, strenuous, strong, violent), mare (acred, adult, ample, big, boundless, brine, broad, bulky, deep, dense, enormous, famous, fat, flux, foam, gorgeous, grand, grandiose, great, gross, hard, heavy, high, howling, huge, hulking, illustrious, immense, important, king size, large, large scale, long, loose, major, man-sized, massy, mighty, open, pond, ponderous, pretty, renowned, rich, roomy, sea, sensible, severe, spacious, stupendous, tall, thick, thundering, vast, violent, voluminous, wide), pãtrunzãtor (acute, astute, clear, clear-sighted, comprehensive, deep, deeply, discerning, harsh, high pitched, in-going, loud, Parky, penetrating, perspicacious, piercing, quick, rich, sagacious, screaming, searching, sharp, shrewd, shrill, strident, subtle, thrilling, touching), pasionat (ardent, avid, eager, enthusiast, flaming, glowing, hot stuff, hot-blooded, impassioned, maniac, passional, passionate, perfervid, tropical, warm), profund (abstruse, deep, deeply, home-felt, profound, profoundly, rootedly, sound, thick, thorough, thoughtful), sever (austere, close, dour, drastic, exacting, firm, frowning, grim, hard, harsh, narrow, rigid, rigidly, rigorous, rugged, severe, stern, Strait, strict, unrelenting), energic (a live wire, active, alive, brisk, buoyant, dapper, drastic, dynamic, emphatic, energetic, energetically, forcible, full of beans, humming, iron, lively, living, managing, mightily, peppy, peremptory, pushful, pushing, sharp, snappy, stout, stoutly, strenuous, strong, strong-minded, trenchant, virile). (various references)

Russian 

острый (acrid, acute, argute, arrowy, biting, bristling, eager, edgy, hot, incisive, lancinating, nice, peppery, poignant, pointed, punchy, pungent, quick, quinsy, racy, sharp, smart, tangy, trenchant, zappy). (various references)

Scottish

togarrach (willing), guineach (bitterly malicious), dian (eager, hasty, vehement), deil , dil, bras (fast, impetuous, quick, rapid, rash, speedy, swift, vehement). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pronicljiv (argute, clairvoyant, clear-sighted, discerning, perspicacious, piercing, poignant, trenchant), oduševljen (enthusiastic), oštar (acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, argute, austere, biting, brisk, brusque, cutting, piercing, racy, scathing, sharp, sharp cut, strident, strong, trenchant, twang), žudan (avid, covetous, craving, desirous, hungry, longing), željan (avid, covetous, craving, desirous, eager, wishful). (various references)

Spanish

perspicaz (acute, astute, clear-sighted, discerning, discriminating, judicious, observant, penetrating, perceptive, perceptual, percipient, perspicacious, quick-sighted, sharp, sharp witted, sharp-eyed, sharp-sighted, sharp-witted, shrewd, subtle), lamento fúnebre, lamentar fúnebre, ganoso (desirous, desirously, eager), fijo (fast, firm, fixed, hard, immovable, lingering, resident, stable, unswerving), entusiasta (addict, buff, ebullient, enthusiast, enthusiastic, fan, fiend, glowing, nut, warm, zealous, zestful), afilado (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, grinding, hone, lurid, setting, sharp, sharp-edged, sharpening, sharply-edged, whetting), aficionado (amateur, amateurish, bushleague, dabbler, dilettante, fan, fancier, fond, lover, non-professional, partial), acre (acre, acrid, acute, caustic, gruff, mordant, pungent, sharp, sour). (various references)

Swedish

vass (cutting, edgy, incisive, mordant, Reed, reedy, sharp), skarp (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acuate, acute, bitter, caustic, cutting, discriminative, discriminatory, edgy, emphatic, fulminant, glaring, hot, in focus, incisive, lurid, penetrating, perceptive, pungent, quick, salty, scathing, severe, sharp, slashing, smart), ivrig (agog, anxious, ardent, avid, desirous, diligent, dying, eager, earnest, fervent, fervid, great, strenuous, strong, urgent, warm, willing, wisful, zealous). (various references)

Thai

แหลม (เสียง), ช่างสังเกต (observant), กระตือรือร้น (ardent, dynamical, eager, enthusiastic, keen as mustard, lively), หนาวจั�" (bitter, gelid), หลักแหลม (luminous, shrewd). (various references)

Turkish

keskin (acrid, acute, biting, bitter, blazing, chiseled, chiselled, cutting, dead, deep, edged, exquisite, incisive, keen-edged, mordacious, nipping, nippy, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick, searching, severe, sharp, sharp cut, sharp-edged, sharp-set, smart, sour, spiky, splitting, stinging, strong, tart, trenchant), ince (attenuate, attic, brittle, civilized, courteous, dainty, delicate, fine, fragile, graceful, gracile, gracious, lean, nice, polite, precision, refined, scarious, sharp, slender, slim, subtile, subtle, sylphish, sylphlike, sylphy, tenuous, thin, trickish, tricksy, tricky, urbane, vaporous), ağıt yakmak (elegize upon, lament, wail), şahane (brave, corking, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, far out, magnificent, princely, wizard, wonderful), şiddetli (acute, astringent, bitter, brutal, burning, cast iron, consuming, deep, drastic, exquisite, extreme, ferocious, flaming, flash, forceful, frenetic, frenzied, fulminant, furious, gusty, hard, harsh, heavy, high, hot, impetuous, intemperate, intense, intensive, ironclad, profound, rigorous, round, severe, sharp, slashing, sledgehammer, smacking, smart, smashing, spanking, splitting, stand up, stern, stinging, stormy, strenuous, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, torrential, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent), büyük (almighty, ample, big, bulky, capacious, capital, cyclopean, elder, enormous, exalted, extended, grand, grand-, great, great-, handsome, healthy, high, large, large scale, long, macro-, magniloquent, major, mega-, megalo-, mighty, no end, no end of, older, out, precious, rousing, senior, smart, star, stout, sublime, swingeing, wide), düşkün (addict, addicted, affected, almsman, decayed, devotee, doting, down at heels, fallen, fallen on hard times, fond, given to, jealous, jealous of, keen on, partial, poor, sharp-set), güçlü (bouncing, brawny, energetic, forceful, full-blooded, heroic, high pressure, iron, mighty, pithy, potent, powered, powerful, prepotent, robust, sinewed, sinewy, spirited, stalwart, stout, strong, sturdy, vigorous, virile, voluminous), ölenin ardından ağlamak, hevesli (ambitious, anxious, desirous, eager, earnest, enthusiastic, full of zeal, game, great, greedy, hellbent, intent, itching, itchy, responsive, spirited, studious, zealous), zeki (apt, as fresh as paint, astute, brainy, bright, brilliant, clear, clever, cute, discerning, ingenious, intellectual, intelligent, keen-witted, longheaded, luminous, neat, nifty, nimble-witted, penetrating, penetrative, perceptional, perspicacious, quick of comprehension, quick on the trigger, quick-witted, sapient, sharp, sharp-witted, shrewd, smart, sparkling, spiritual, subtile, subtle, understanding), istekli (agog, ambitious, anxious, applicant, aspirant, athirst for, cheerful, covetous, dead set, desirous, devout, disposed, eager, enthusiastic, forward, full of zeal, hellbent, inclinable, inclined, intense, intent, itching, itchy, minded, ready, solicitous, strong, thirsty, voracious, willing, wishful, wistful), matem türküsü, meraklı (addict, addicted, aficionado, amateur, buff, bug, curious, curious person, devotee, fancier, freak, given to, hipped, hipped on, hound, inquiring, inquisitive, inquisitorial, interested, keen on, lover, nosey, nosy, prying, quidnunc, quizzical, rubberneck, snoop, Snoopy, splenetic), sert (acrid, adamant, astringent, austere, bad, bitter, boisterous, bossy, brisk, brutal, cast iron, crusty, cutting, drastic, exact, exacting, fierce, firm, flinty, forbidding, get-tough, granitic, grim, gruff, gusty, hard, hard and fast, hard bitten, hard line, hard set, hardening, hard-hitting, harsh, heady, heavy, heavy-handed, hot, ill natured, inclement, incompressible, inelastic, intemperate, iron, ironclad, nappy, pointed, pungent, rigid, rigorous, rough, round, sclerous, severe, sharp, sharp-set, short, short-spoken, shrewd, smart, solid, sound, spanking, spartan, spiky, stand up, starched, starchy, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, strong, surly, tart, tough, unbending, ungentle, unkind, unrelenting, unshaded, unyielding, vehement, violent), ucuz (cheap, cheaply, dime, dirt cheap, giveaway, inexpensive, low, reach-me-down, trumpery, two bit), uygun (acceptable, accommodating, adaptable, adequate, advisable, agreeable, allowable, answerable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, becoming, befitting, calculated, comely, commensurate, comparative, compatible, concordant, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, consistent, convenient, cool, correct, decent, done, due, eligible, enjoyable, equal, expedient, fair, fair enough, favorable, favourable, felicitous, fine, fit, fitted, fitting, for, in place, likely, lovely, made to order, matching, meet, nice, opportune, permitting, pertinent, pleasant, proper, propitious, proportional, prosperous, pursuant, relevant, ripe, seasonable, seemly, Square, suitable, suited, tailormade, up to, well, well-matched), harika (beautiful, bully, cool, corking, divine, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, far out, gorgeous, groovy, immense, in the groove, jolly good, marvel, marvellous, marvelous, miracle, no mean, old, phenomenal, phenomenon, prodigious, prodigy, ripping, scrumptious, splendid, swell, whizz, wicked, wizard, wonder, wonderful, wondrous, yummy, yum-yum). (various references)

Ukrainian

тужити за небіжчиком, гострий (abrupt, acrid, acrimonious, acute, argute, bad, barbed, biting, eager, edgy, incisive, nimble, nutty, piercing, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick, savoury, sharp, splitting, subtile, subtle, trenchant, zestful), загострювати (acuminate, aggravate, edge, escalate, peak, rankle, subtilize, thin), пряний (nutty, racy, spiced, spicy), пронизливий (acute, argute, brazen, cutting, penetrating, piercing, piping, screaming, searching, shrill, stabbing, thrilling), плач за небіжчиком. (various references)

Vietnamese 

kịch liệt; hăng hái, xuất sắc hăng say, thiết tha (eager, greedy), thấm thía sắc sảo; tinh, thính chua cay, say mê (absorbed, crazily, dotingly, nut), sắc (acute, colour, quick, sharp-edged), sôi nổi (ardent, ardently, bean, bean-fed, effervescent, feverish, fiery, hectic, hot-blooded, hot-spririted, mettled, mettlesome, passionate, rousing, vehement), phớn phở, nhiệt tình ham mê, nhói, dữ dội (boot, formidable, heavy, high, impetuous, ravenous, rude, severse, thundering, towering, vehement, violent), cừ khôi (clinking, grand, hammer, stunning, walloping), đay nghiến (biting, mordacious, mordant). (various references)

Welsh

treiddgar (penetrating), miniog (cutting, sharp), llym (acute, austere, severe, sharp), craffus (sagacious), craff (acute, astute, close, grip, hold, sagacious), blaenllym (sharp), awchus (ardent, eager, greedy, sharp), awchlym (acute, sharp). (various references)

acer, alacer, aspera, asperam, asperas, asperum, strenuus, studiose, studiosis, studiosissime. (various references)

cene. (various references)

caoinim. (various references)

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