Definition of eager

"eager" in the noun sense

1. tidal bore, bore, eagre, aegir, eager

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

"eager" in the adjective sense

1. eager

having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy

"eager to learn"

"eager to travel abroad"

"eager for success"

"eager helpers"

"an eager look"

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Quotations for eager

The insect-youth are on the wing,
Eager to taste the honied spring,
And float amid the liquid noon! [ Gray ]

Mysterious to all thought,
A mother's prime of bliss,
When to her eager lips is brought
Her infant's thrilling kiss. [ Keble ]

The bitter clamour of two eager tongues. [ William Shakespeare ]

Tired of the last, and eager of the new. [ Prior ]

Let Observation, with extensive view,
Survey mankind from China to Peru;
Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife,
And watch the busy scenes of crowded life. [ Dr. Johnson ]

He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. [ William Shakespeare ]

First on thy friend deliberate with thyself;
Pause, ponder, sift; not eager in the choice;
Nor jealous of the chosen; fixing, fix;
Judge before friendship, then confide till death. [ Young ]

None are less eager to learn than they who know nothing. [ Suard ]

Men are less eager for what they may have, than what they cannot obtain. [ Proverb ]

Oh, poor hearts of poets, eager for the infinite in love, will you never be understood. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

He has lost his arms and deserted the cause of virtue who is ever eager and engrossed in increasing his wealth. [ Horace ]

A vulgar man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles. He suspects himself to be slighted, and thinks everything that is said meant at him. [ Chesterfield ]

Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious; but, for the same reason, every one is eager to instruct his neighbors. [ Johnson ]

His tongue, like the tail of Samson's foxes, carries firebrands, and is enough to set the whole field of the world on a flame. Himself begins table-talk of his neighbor at another's board, to whom he bears the first news, and adjures him to conceal the reporter; whose choleric answer he returns to his first host, enlarged with a second edition; so as it used to be done in the fight of unwilling mastiffs, he claps each on the side apart, and provokes them to an eager conflict. [ Bishop Hall ]

eager in Scrabble®

The word eager is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters eager:

AGREE
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eager in Words With Friends™

The word eager is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters eager:

AGREE
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Words containing the sequence eager

Words that start with eager (5 words)

Words that end with eager (5 words)

Word Growth involving eager

Shorter words in eager

ag age

Longer words containing eager

eagerer meagerer

eagerest meagerest

eagerly meagerly

eagerly overeagerly

eagerness meagerness

eagerness overeagerness

meager meagerer

meager meagerest

meager meagerly

meager meagerness

middleager middleagers

overeager overeagerly

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