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ea⋅ger

1  [ee-ger]
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–adjective
1. keen or ardent in desire or feeling; impatiently longing: I am eager for news about them. He is eager to sing.
2. characterized by or revealing great earnestness: an eager look.
3. Obsolete. keen; sharp; biting.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME egre < AF, OF egre, aigre < VL *ācrus for L ācer sharp

Related forms:
ea⋅ger⋅ly, adverb
ea⋅ger⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. enthusiastic, desirous. See avid. 2. fervent, zealous, fervid, intent, intense, earnest.

Antonyms:
1, 2. indifferent, uninterested. 2. heedless.
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ea⋅ger

2  [ee-ger, ey-ger]
–noun Chiefly British.
eagre.

ea⋅gre

  [ee-ger, ey-ger]
–noun Chiefly British.
a tidal bore or flood.
Also, eager.

Origin:
1640–50; appar. repr. earlier agar, ager, obscurely akin to hyger, higre; (cf. AL (12th century) higra the tidal bore of the Severn); compared with OE ēgor, eogor flood, high tide, though preservation of g in modern forms is problematic
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ea·ger 1   (ē'gər)   
adj.   ea·ger·er, ea·ger·est

  1. Having or showing keen interest, intense desire, or impatient expectancy. See Usage Note at anxious.

  2. Obsolete Tart; sharp; cutting.


[Middle English eger, sour, sharp, impetuous, from Anglo-Norman egre, from Latin ācer; see ak- in Indo-European roots.]
ea'ger·ly adv., ea'ger·ness n.
ea·ger 2   (ē'gər, ā'gər)   
n.  Variant of eagre.
ea·gre also ea·ger   (ē'gər, ā'gər)   
n.  See bore3.

[Origin unknown.]
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Word Origin & History

eager 
1297, from O.Fr. aigre, from V.L. *acrus, from L. acer (gen. acris) "keen, sharp" (see acrid). The Eng. word kept an alternate meaning of "pungent, sharp-edged" till 19c. (e.g. Shakespeare's "The bitter clamour of two eager tongues," in "Richard II").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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