EAGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eager mean? 

• EAGER (noun)
  The noun EAGER has 1 sense:

1. a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)

  Familiarity information: EAGER used as a noun is very rare.

• EAGER (adjective)
  The adjective EAGER has 1 sense:

1. having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy

  Familiarity information: EAGER used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EAGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

aegir; bore; eager; eagre; tidal bore

Hypernyms ("eager" is a kind of...):

tidal current; tidal flow (the water current caused by the tides)

• EAGER (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy

Context example:

an eager look

Similar:

anxious; dying (eagerly desirous)

hot (having or showing great eagerness or enthusiasm)

impatient; raring ((usually followed by 'to') full of eagerness)

overeager (excessively eager)

Also:

enthusiastic (having or showing great excitement and interest)

Antonym:

uneager (lacking interest or spirit or animation)

Derivation:

eagerness (a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something)

 Context examples 

In fact, you will turn heads, and admirers will be eager to meet you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Depend upon it, it is not you who are wanted; depend upon it, it is me (looking at the butler); but you are so very eager to put yourself forward.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I did not wish to seem too eager, or to let my informant know or guess too much, so, thanking him in the usual manner, I strolled away.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I rose from the thanksgiving—took a resolve—and lay down, unscared, enlightened—eager but for the daylight.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Lord John was standing at gaze with his finger on the trigger of his elephant-gun, his eager hunter's soul shining from his fierce eyes.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Emma gave a start, which did not seem like being prepared—and her eyes, in eager gaze, said, “No, this is impossible!” but her lips were closed.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The moment Mit-sah gave his order for the start, that moment the whole team, with eager, savage cries, sprang forward at White Fang.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

We are eager to extend these studies to humans to identify if timed exercise can be used as a treatment strategy for people with metabolic diseases, he explains.

(Morning, Evening Exercise Provides Different Health Benefits, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He rose up without delay, eager to start on his way and to reach the castle of Stromberg, but he had no idea in which direction he ought to go.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Scientists also have been eager to find out if Dione has geologic activity, like Saturn's geyser-spouting moon Enceladus, but at a much lower level.

(Cassini to Make Last Close Flyby of Saturn Moon Dione, NASA)