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keen

 
Adjective keen has 6 senses
  1. acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp - having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations"
    Antonyms: unperceptive, unperceiving (indirect, via perceptive)
  2. exquisite, keen - intense or sharp; "suffered exquisite pain"; "felt exquisite pleasure"
    Antonym: mild (indirect, via intense)
  3. incisive, keen, sharp - very penetrating and clear and sharp in operation; "an incisive mind"; "a keen intelligence"; "of sharp and active intellect"
    Antonyms: unintelligent, stupid (indirect, via intelligent)
  4. bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing - very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"
    Antonym: bad (indirect, via good)
  5. cutting, keen, knifelike, piercing, stabbing, lancinate, lancinating - as physically painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "lancinating pain"
    Antonym: dull (indirect, via sharp)
  6. keen - having a sharp cutting edge or point; "a keen blade"
    Antonym:
    dull (indirect, via sharp)
Noun keen has 1 sense
  1. keen - a funeral lament sung with loud wailing
    --1 is a kind of
    dirge, coronach, lament, requiem, threnody
    Derived form: verb keen1
Verb keen has 1 sense
  1. lament, keen - express grief verbally; "we lamented the death of the child"
    --1 is one way to express emotion, express feelings
    Derived form: noun keen1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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