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[ US /ˈiɡɝ/ ]
[ UK /ˈiːɡɐ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy
    eager to travel abroad
    eager helpers
    eager to learn
    eager for success
    an eager look
NOUN
  1. a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)

How To Use eager In A Sentence

  • We were like sponges; we absorbed knowledge eagerly after the ten-year void.
  • On arriving in Britain she found herself to be a virtual slave to Dunlop, who exhibited her to curious Europeans who were eager to view Baartman's steatopygous buttocks and genitalia. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Commissioned in 1963 to make a film about America's first successful quintuplet birth, Leacock and Joyce Chopra captured the quints' mother's anxiety at her sudden celebrity and the surrounding South Dakota community's eagerness to cash in on it. The Man Who Held Up a Mirror to America
  • I am eager to learn how to ride a bicycle.
  • Chook! she was crying, and the dogs whined and yelped in eagerness of desire and effort to overtake Big THE RACE FOR NUMBER ONE
  • They hurt for the wounded and the dead but they are eager to continue to attack.
  • Eager to attack Troy, Agamemnon kills her, and the Greeks are given favorable winds for their ships.
  • That extra tail-weight partly explains why the Octavia feels eager to point into a corner despite its soft and very comfortable springing, making it a surprisingly enjoyable car for a keen driver, apart from the overly snatchy brakes.
  • All the miracle of sails; the steady foresail; the sensitive jibs; the press canvas delicate as bubbles; the reliable main; the bluff topsails; topgallants like eager horses; the impertinent skysails; the jaunty moonraker, were just canvas stretched on poles. The Wind Bloweth
  • His assistant, a pretty young woman, is bright, very capable, and eager to help.
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