eager

eager is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Sharp; sour; acid. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Sharp; sour; acid.
2. adjective. Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.
3. adjective. Excited by desire in the pursuit of any object; ardent to pursue, perform, or obtain; keenly desirous; hotly longing; earnest; zealous; impetuous; vehement; as, the hounds were eager in the chase.
4. adjective. Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.
5. noun. Same as Eagre.
6. noun. a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)

   Synonyms: aegir, bore, eagre

7. adjective. having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy

   "eager to learn"

   "eager to travel abroad"

Synonyms

aegir, bore, eagre

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in eager:

aeger, agree, eagre, gerea, ragee

Common word forms

eagers, eagerer, eagerly, eagerest, eagerness

Words from these letters

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