EAGER
What does "EAGER" mean?
Keenly wanting to do or have something; impatiently enthusiastic.
Meanings
- Strongly wanting to do or get something; full of keen desire. The puppy was eager to please, tail going like a metronome.
- Marked by enthusiastic interest or impatience. An eager crowd pressed against the gates before dawn.
Did you know?
- 'Eager' and 'vinegar' are cousins: both trace to Latin 'acer', sharp, and vinegar is just 'vin aigre', sour wine, so an eager person is etymologically a sharp one.
Word origin
From Latin 'acer' (sharp, keen) via Old French 'aigre' (sour, sharp); English first used 'eager' to mean sharp or pungent before it came to mean keen of desire.
Remember it
An EAGER beaver gnaws an EA-ger of wood before breakfast - it cannot wait.
A little poem
The kettle, eager, climbs to a shriek,
then learns that wanting and getting are weeks apart, not a week.
couplet
What it teaches
Eagerness is sharpness aimed forward; point it at the right thing or it just cuts you.
Quick facts
What does EAGER mean?
Keenly wanting to do or have something; impatiently enthusiastic.
Is EAGER a valid word?
Yes — EAGER is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is EAGER?
EAGER has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does EAGER come from?
From Latin 'acer' (sharp, keen) via Old French 'aigre' (sour, sharp); English first used 'eager' to mean sharp or pungent before it came to mean keen of desire.
What can EAGER teach us?
Eagerness is sharpness aimed forward; point it at the right thing or it just cuts you.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.