keen

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But alas SO seems keen on shutting that down; and3.

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Quick take

a funeral lament sung with loud wailing

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of keen gathered in one view.

noun

a funeral lament sung with loud wailing

verb

express grief verbally; "we lamented the death of the child"

adjective

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"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for keen.

noun

a funeral lament sung with loud wailing

verb

express grief verbally; "we lamented the death of the child"

adjective

intense or sharp; "suffered exquisite pain"; "felt exquisite pleasure"

adjective

very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"

adjective

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"

adjective

having a sharp cutting edge or point; "a keen blade"

Example sentences

But alas SO seems keen on shutting that down; and3.

Articles like this always make me a bit sad, as a keen gardener.

From the first commander keen all the way through probably Quake 3, the stuff he wrote was all cutting edge.

I wouldn't want to miss any of it, and am keen to hear about future developments.

I can't speak to the quality of the Uber experience, but it seems many of the Lyft drivers were not too keen on the company.

Then after WW2, the Soviets again, keen to punish the Latvians for daring to "let" the Nazi war machine crush them beneath its jackboots.

Android does not fit this bill because Google only release Android source code once the job is done and is not keen on accepting contributions from third-party.

And as my CEO Stefan said in his blog...we have always been keen to form viable partnerships within Kenya, and google is a company we have looked at working with.

It was a combination of decent advice, keen cultural insight, and utterly whacked-out ravings.

" He goes on to say that he "enjoy[s] a reputation of being someone of intense understanding and observation with a keen strategic instinct.

Modern testing and build systems might, but regulators aren't keen to change their testing systems, many of which were encoded by legislation decades ago.

This is a meticulously researched, marvelously analyzed, and brilliantly synthesized order done by a judge who has a keen grasp of not just the facts of the case but of those that really matter.

The office\n culture sucks ass, and unless you're keen to\n sticking your nose up certain people's asses, or\n have been here since the days when we could\n actually ship games, then you're not going to get\n very far.\n\n I think Zenimax is mostly to blame for this.

You didn't realize that this tiny pocket of under-served market, which is of keen and relevant interest to dozens of companies all around you, maybe, just maybe, has huge barriers to entry or scaling, and that every other company already explored it and wrote it off as unprofitable?

Its another thing to just throw in the first data structure or algorithm that comes to mind, often because whatever software development toolkit youre using has a limited set of options available and maybe its not worth the time to code up something more appropriate, or maybe because as the industry has grown a lot of developers arent either formally trained or keen hobbyist geeks any more and not everyone knows about all the options.