Definitions for Keen

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Keen keen

Spelling: [keen]

IPA: /kin/

Keen is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 15 anagrams from letters in Keen (eekn).

Definitions for Keen

noun

1. a wailing lament for the dead.

adjective

1. finely sharpened, as an edge; so shaped as to cut or pierce substances readily:
2. sharp, piercing, or biting:
3. characterized by strength and distinctness of perception; extremely sensitive or responsive:
4. having or showing great mental penetration or acumen:
5. animated by or showing strong feeling or desire:
6. intense, as feeling or desire:
7. eager; interested; enthusiastic (often followed by about, on, etc., or an infinitive):
8. Slang. great; wonderful; marvelous.

verb (used with object)

1. to mourn for by or with such keening or wailing:

verb (used without object)

1. to wail in lamentation for the dead.

Origin of Keen

before 900; 1930-35 for def 8; Middle English kene, Old English cēne; cognate with German kühn, Old High German chuoni bold, Old Norse kœnn wise, skillful

Examples for Keen

Would a state with a keen understanding of the power of propaganda be so willing to just throw away such a trove of information?

But you would pardon me if you knew how much I have suffered from it, and how keen my remorse has been.

Manttan is keen to carry out research on that Burmese side of the railway as his father worked on that section.

The Telegraph reports that he is fluent in Swahili and a keen zoologist.

Nor, my dear, does your own mother always escape the keen edge of your vivacity.

What results is a kind of mashup concert, a virtuoso mixed-media DJ set tuned to a keen emotional pitch.

So keen the blade, so soft the touch, the sleeper did not wake!

She had meant to wait; but, with his keen eyes on her, she could not dissemble.

And because millions of us are so keen to do just that, our behavioral habits are changing.

His keen eyes had perceived Mary Turner's graces of form, her loveliness of face.