eager

1. 1

   Desirous; keen to do or obtain something.

   • Stacey is very eager to go cycling this weekend.
   • The hounds were eager in the chase.
2. 2

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

   • an eager algorithm
3. 3

   Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.dated

   • gold itself will be sometimes so eager, (as artists call it), that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself
4. 4

   Sharp; sour; acid.obsolete

   • like eager droppings into milk
5. 5

   Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.figurativelyobsolete

   • If so thou thinkest, vex him with eager words.
   • It is a nipping and an eager air.

syn. keen · solicitous · raring · alacritous · athirst · fain · hot

ant. averse · disinclined · reluctant · unwilling

1. 1

   To be or become eager.intransitive

   • 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.
2. 2

   To express eagerness.intransitive

   • His hair crinkled towards her fondly. "Yes," he eagered.
   • Peg! eager voices eagered voicely.
3. 3

   To make or encourage to be eagertransitive

   • 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 .

1. 1

   Alternative form of eagre (“tidal bor”).alt-ofalternative