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EAGER

eager - a 
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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Synonyms

ambitious, greedy, hungry, impatient, keen, restless, thirsty, craving, earnest, hankering, intent, longing, pining, wild, yearning

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Examples

We barely slept that night, in eager anticipation of glimpsing our first rays of sunshine!

She wasn't eager to draw his undivided attention, but his distance struck her as unusual, if not yet another rejection.

The country by this time had become thickly covered over with castles, the seats of greater or lesser nobles, all of whom were eager to detach themselves from strict allegiance to the Regno.

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Etymology

late 13c., "strenuous, ardent, fierce, angry," from Old French aigre "sour, acid; harsh, bitter, rough; eager greedy; lively, active, forceful," from Vulgar Latin *acrus (source also of Italian agro, Spanish agrio), from Latin acer "keen, sharp, pointed, piercing; acute, ardent, zealous" (from PIE root *ak- "be sharp, rise (out) to a point, pierce").

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