Keener

Word KEENER
Character 6
Hyphenation keen er
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Definitions and meanings of "Keener"

What do we mean by keener?

Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness or willingness; eager, enthusiastic, interested.

Fierce, intense, vehement.

Having a fine edge or point; sharp.

Acute of mind, having or expressing mental acuteness; penetrating, sharp.

Acrimonious, bitter, piercing.

Of cold, wind, etc.: cutting, penetrating, piercing, sharp.

Of prices, extremely low as to be competitive.

Marvelous.

Brave, courageous; audacious, bold.

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The word "keener" in example sentences

He was an adorable boy, his expression keener and more changeable than that of the changeling. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2004)

It would be difficult to explain what the change was, but it forcibly struck Alain: the air was more dignified, the expression keener; there was a look of conscious power and command about the man even at that distance; the intense, concentrated intelligence of his eye, his firm lip, his marked features, his projecting, massive brow, would have impressed a very ordinary observer. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

The more absolutely he fails, the higher, it is probable, he will reckon his own merits; and the keener will be the sense of injury in that he whose work is of so high a nature cannot get bread, while they whose tasks are mean are lapped in luxury. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The hotter the opposition the keener will be the support. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The closer the connection has been, the keener is the loss. ❋ Hugh Black (N/A)

Months passed; Nancy was tormented by a desire for expression keener than ever and the sense that until she had some knowledge of actual life she would write nothing that was vital, nothing that was true. ❋ Unknown (1920)

In fact, the more plentiful and cheap is capital, the keener will be the demand for the labour of the workers. ❋ Hartley Withers (1908)

The more his work was praised, the more his friends talked of honors and planned his future, the keener was his suffering, and most of all there was the shadow that had come between him and his father, breaking the old comradeship, and causing them to shun each other; though the father never knew why. ❋ Harold Bell Wright (1908)

The more pains he takes with these processes, naturally the keener will be his enjoyment of them. ❋ Unknown (1906)

The more vividly I could do this, the keener was the pleasure I was able to obtain from their contemplated embraces. ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)

The more determined one may be to lay bare the gems of this faith and its administration by the Brahmins, the keener will be his disappointment, for not a redeeming feature will he find, and he may quit India smarting with regret over wasted time. ❋ Frederic Courtland Penfield (1888)

The nearer man approaches to moral perfection, the keener are his sensibilities, the more acute is his perception of sin, and the deeper his sympathy for the afflicted. ❋ Ellen Gould Harmon White (1871)

The more indifferent she was to him, the keener was his desire to possess her. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)

A keener, that is, a more interested eye than hers, might have discovered traces of suffering in the forms of the wrinkles which, as he talked, would now and then flit like ripples over his forehead; but Helen's eyes seldom did more than slip over the faces presented to her; and had it been otherwise, who could be expected to pay much regard to Thomas Wingfold when George Bascombe was present? ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

No short-coming or wrong, however great, from the weaker to the stronger, can merit an equal return; and according to the law that the more delicate the mental and physical organisation, the keener is the power of suffering; so no man, be he ever so wise or tender-hearted, can rightly estimate the depth of a woman's agony. ❋ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1856)

The more thorough is the knowledge of the human body and of the action of various substances on its organs and tissues, the more minute and discriminating will be the perception of fitness or unfitness as to the objects that tempt the appetites, and the keener will be the sense of right or wrong in their use. ❋ Unknown (1852)

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