eager
having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,478 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 12,398 times across 173,499 chapters — 0.006% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy eager to learneager to travel abroad
noun
- a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) also: tidal bore, bore, eagre, aegir
eager in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Miss Howard was swallowed up in an eager chorus of protests and good-byes.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles · Agatha Christie · Chapter 1
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Her own appreciation of good turns made her eager to do them for others.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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Sleepless, I see the slumberous boors Their blurred eyes blink, their eyelids fall: Thought’s eager sight Aches—overbright!
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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Half a dozen curious fellows, more eager than the rest, ran after him to try and see his face.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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A year was then spent in the Isle of Circé, after which the sailors were eager to make for home.
The Odyssey of Homer · 751? BCE-651? BCE Homer · Chapter 1