keen
suomi-englanti sanakirjakeen englannista suomeksi
kova, kiihkeä
itkuvirsi
terävä
tarkka
pureva
laulaa itkuvirttä
erinomainen
Substantiivi
Verbi
keen englanniksi
(senseid) Often with a phrase, or with (m) and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness or willingness; eager, enthusiastic, interested.
(ux)
(quote-book)
2000, Green (author)|Jane Green, ''Bookends'', London: (w), (ISBN); republished as ''Bookends: A Novel'', trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: (w), 2003, (ISBN), page 304:
- 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.
Acute of mind, having or expressing mental acuteness; penetrating, sharp.
(RQ:Shakespeare Sonnets)
Of cold, wind, etc.: cutting, penetrating, piercing, sharp.
1764 December 19 (indicated as 1765), (w), ''Traveller (poem)|The Traveller, or a Prospect of Society. A Poem. Inscribed to the Rev. Henry Goldsmith'', London: Printed for Newbery|John Newbery, (OCLC); 3rd edition, London: Printed for J. Newbury,(sic) in St Paul's Cathedral|St. Paul's Church-yard, 1765, (OCLC), page 10:
- Chearful at morn he wakes from ſhort repoſe, / Breaſts the keen air, and carolls as he goes; (..)
Of prices, extremely low as to be competitive.
Brave, 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