keen
/kin/ adjetivo B2En español: entusiasta, ardoroso, fijo, motivado
- Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness or willingness; eager, enthusiastic, interested. · I’m keen on computers.· I’m keen on you.
- Fierce, intense, vehement. · This boy has a keen appetite.
- Having a fine edge or point; sharp.
- Acute of mind, having or expressing mental acuteness; penetrating, sharp.
- Acrimonious, bitter, piercing. · keen satire or sarcasm
- Cutting, penetrating, piercing, sharp. · a keen wind· the cold is very keen
- Marvelous. · I just got this peachy keen new dress.
Comparativo keener · Superlativo keenest
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The light showed a pale, square-jawed face with keen eyes, and a little white scar near his right eyebrow.
To the society bud comes but one début; it stands alone sweet in her memory when her hair has whitened; but to Chandler each ten weeks brought a joy as keen, as thrilling, as new as the first had been.
His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped; and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment, maintaining at the same time the most resolute composure of countenance, and, except in an occasional glance at Elizabeth, requiring no partner in his pleasure.
Darcy’s shameful boast of what misery he had been able to inflict gave her a keener sense of her sister’s sufferings.
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