keen

keen is a 4-letter English word with 15 senses as transitive verb, noun, intransitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Sharp; having a fine edge or point; as, a keen razor, or a razor with a keen edge. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. superlative. Sharp; having a fine edge or point; as, a keen razor, or a razor with a keen edge.
2. superlative. Acute of mind; sharp; penetrating; having or expressing mental acuteness; as, a man of keen understanding; a keen look; keen features.
3. superlative. Bitter; piercing; acrimonious; cutting; stinging; severe; as, keen satire or sarcasm.
4. superlative. Piercing; penetrating; cutting; sharp; -- applied to cold, wind, etc, ; as, a keen wind; the cold is very keen.
5. superlative. Eager; vehement; fierce; as, a keen appetite.
6. transitive verb. To sharpen; to make cold.
7. noun. A prolonged wail for a deceased person. Cf. Coranach.
8. intransitive verb. To wail as a keener does.
9. noun. a funeral lament sung with loud wailing
10. verb. express grief verbally

    "we lamented the death of the child"

    Synonyms: lament

11. adjective. having a sharp cutting edge or point

    "a keen blade"

12. adjective. painful as if caused by a sharp instrument

    "a cutting wind"

    "keen winds"

    Synonyms: cutting, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing, stabbing

13. adjective. very good

    "he did a bully job"

    "a neat sports car"

    Synonyms: bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, neat, nifty, peachy, smashing, swell

14. adjective. intense or sharp

    "suffered exquisite pain"

    "felt exquisite pleasure"

    Synonyms: exquisite

15. adjective. having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

    "an acute observer of politics and politicians"

    "incisive comments"

    Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp

Synonyms

lament, cutting, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing, stabbing, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, neat, nifty, peachy, smashing, swell, exquisite, acute, discriminating, incisive, penetrating, penetrative

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in keen:

knee

Common word forms

keens, keened, keener, keenly, keenest, keening, keenness

Words from these letters

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