eager

[ee-ger] / ˈi gər /

ADJECTIVE

anxious, enthusiastic

Synonyms

STRONGEST

ambitious greedy hungry impatient keen restless thirsty

STRONG

craving earnest hankering intent longing pining wild yearning

WEAK

acquisitive agog antsy appetent ardent athirst avid breathless champing at the bit covetous desiring desirous dying to fervent fervid gung-ho heated hot hot to trot rarin' to go ready and willing restive self-starting solicitous vehement voracious warmblooded wishful zealous

Antonyms

STRONGEST

satisfied

WEAK

apathetic disinterested dispassionate unconcerned uneager unenthusiastic

Example Sentences

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He was armed with an old United States yager, which redoubtable weapon, though he could never hit his mark with it, he was accustomed to cherish as the very sovereign of firearms.

From The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life by Parkman, Francis

Ellis slowly dismounted, and deliberately leveling his boasted yager, shot the old bull through the heart; then he lazily climbed back again to his seat, pluming himself no doubt on having actually killed a buffalo.

From The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life by Parkman, Francis

"Do you see them buffalo?" said Ellis, "now I'll bet any man I'll go and kill one with my yager."

From The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life by Parkman, Francis

A yager, thinking to deprive Peyton of the sword, brought down a musket-butt heavily on it.

From The Continental Dragoon A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778 by Stephens, Robert Neilson

Not the wild yager on his gait to perdition, rode so fearfully.

From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by Townsend, George Alfred

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