Definition of Eager

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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

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

None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?
Richard Dawkins

South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
Tom Peters

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

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.
Lee Iacocca

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

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

The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.
Taylor Caldwell

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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