keen
suomi-englanti sanakirjakeen englannista suomeksi
kova, kiihkeä
itkuvirsi
terävä
tarkka
pureva
laulaa itkuvirttä
erinomainen
Substantiivi
keen englanniksi
(senseid) Often with a phrase, or with (m) and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness or willingness; eager, enthusiastic, interested.
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(RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet)
(quote-book)|isbn=978-0-14-027652-7|passage=In fact, she doesn't mention the fact that I've obviously been avoiding her, just sounds genuinely thrilled to hear from me, and as soon as I mention getting together she suggests Monday, which is rather keen, even for Portia.
(RQ:Shakespeare Merchant of Venice)
(quote-book)
(RQ:Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost)
(RQ:Shakespeare Macbeth)
(U) of mind, having or expressing mental acuteness; penetrating, sharp.
(RQ:Shakespeare Sonnets)
(RQ:Cowper Poems)
(quote-book) But in old or nervous or solemnest or dying hours, when one needs the impalpably soothing and vitalizing influences of abysmic Nature, or its affinities in literature or human society, and the soul resents the keenest mere intellection, they will not be sought for.
(RQ:Shakespeare King John)
Cutting, penetrating, piercing, sharp.
(RQ:Goldsmith Traveller)
(RQ:Montgomery Golden Road)
Of prices, extremely low as to be competitive.
(U).
(quote-song)|composer=(w)|title=(w)|album=(w)|artist=Elton John, (w), (w), (w)|date=4 February 1974|note=track 3|text=Oh, but they're weird and they're wonderful / Oh, Bennie, she's really keen / She's got electric boots, a mohair suit / You know I read it in a magazine, oh / B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets
(U), courageous; audacious, bold.
(RQ:Thomson Autumn) is the pureſt exerciſe of health, / The kind refreſher of the ſummer-heats; / Nor, when cold (smallcaps) keens the brightening flood, / Would I weak-ſhivering linger on the brink.
(senseid) To utter a keen.
20th century, Stuart Howard-Jones (1904–1974), “Hibernia”, in (w), comp., ''The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse'', New York, N.Y.: (w), 1978, (ISBN), page 243:
- Last night he had put down too much ''Potheen'' / (A vulgar blend of Methyl and Benzene) / That, at some Wake, he might the better keen. / (Keen—meaning 'brisk'? Nay, here the Language warps: / 'Tis singing bawdy Ballads to a Corpse.)
(RQ:Wolfe New Sun)
To mourn.
(inflection of)
no, not a, not any
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