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Definition of Eager
Eager

Sharp; sour; acid.

Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.

Excited by desire in the pursuit of any object; ardent to pursue, perform, or obtain; keenly desirous; hotly longing; earnest; zealous; impetuous; vehement; as, the hounds were eager in the chase.

Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.

Same as Eagre.

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Eager Quotations

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
Sitting Bull

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
James A. Baldwin

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
Aeschylus

Eager Translations

eager in German is eifrig, eifrig, begierig
eager in Italian is ansioso, zelante
eager in Latin is intrepidus, expetens, acer
eager in Norwegian is ivrig
eager in Swedish is ivrig


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