keen

keen

1. kiinnostunut; halukas, innokas; kova, kiihkeä

2. terävä; (tuulesta) pureva

Esimerkkejä:

They wanted to go out but I wasnt 'keen'.

If he is 'keen', hell make an offer.

Everybody was 'keen' to start work as soon as possible.

a 'keen' golf player

He is very 'keen' on playing golf.

That boy seems to be very 'keen' on you, dear.

to take a 'keen' interest in

Dogs have a 'keen' sense of smell.

'keen' eyesight

a 'keen' blade

a 'keen' northeasterly wind

Liittyvät sanat: unkeen

Synonyymisanakirja

keen

terävä, hyvä, kelpo, melkoinen, reilu, erinomainen, loistava, ensiluokkainen, hieno, upea, mahtava, kova, siisti, aika hyvä, ei hassumpi, kiva, ihana, ihan hyvä, mainio, puhekielen ilmaus, arkikielen ilmaus.

Rimmaavat sanat

keen rimmaa näiden kanssa:

jälkeen, peräjälkeen, keskeen, puolimäkeen...

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Englannin sanakirja

keen englanniksi

1. showing a quick and ardent willingness or responsiveness, enthusiastic, eager; interested, intense.

2. vehement; fierce

This boy has a keen appetite.

3. (rfdat), w:Piers Plowman|Piers Plowman

Of full keen will.

4. (rfdat), Shakespeare

So keen and greedy to confound a man.

5. sharp; having a fine edge or point.

6. (rfdat) w:William Shakespeare|Shakespeare, s:The Tragedy of Macbeth/Act ISCENE V. Inverness. Macbeth's castle.|The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 5:

That my keen knife see not the wound it makes.

7. acute of mind; sharp; penetrating; having or expressing mental acuteness.

8. (rfdat), w:Shakespeare Shakespeare

To make our wits more keen.

9. (rfdat), w:Cowper Cowper

Before the keen inquiry of her thought.

10. bitter; piercing; acrimonious;

keen satire or sarcasm

11. (rfdat) w:Shakespeare Shakespeare

Good father cardinal, cry thou amen to my keen curses.

12. piercing; penetrating; cutting; sharp; -- applied to cold, wind, etc.

a keen wind

the cold is very keen

13. (rfdat), w:Goldsmith Goldsmith

Breasts the keen air, and carols as he goes.

14. puhekieltä enthusiastic.

Im keen to learn another language.''

Im keen on learning another language.''

Im keen on languages.''

Im keen about learning languages.''

Im keen for help.''

"Do you want to learn another language?" / "Im keen."

15. puhekieltä marvelous.

I just got this peachy keen new dress.

16. 1985, Douglas Adams, The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts (page 82)

Well our hosts here attacked us with a fantastic Dismodulating Anti Phase stun ray and then invited us to this amazingly keen meal by way of making it up to us.

17. puhekieltä extremely low as to be competitive.

keen prices

18. puhekieltä brave, courageous; bold, audacious.

19. puhekieltä To sharpen; to make cold.

20. (rfdat), Thomson.

Cold winter keens the brightening flood.

21. A prolonged wail for a deceased person.

22. (quote-book) she went so swiftly that he could only follow her to the door. The large shape of the car swallowed her up; and the car twisted softly around the little drive and away to the London road. Minutes later he heard its Klaxon, just one sharp keen, like the harsh cry of a sea-bird.

23. puhekieltä To utter a keen.

24. (rfdat) Stuart Howard-Jones (1904-1974), Hibernia. Collected in The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, 1978.

Keen—meaning 'brisk'? Nay, here the Language warps:
'Tis singing bawdy Ballads to a Corpse.

25. puhekieltä To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.

26. (quote-book)

27. puhekieltä To mourn.

28. no, not any, not a

29. bring

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