Usually means: Eager, enthusiastic, often excessively so.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word keener:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. keener: Merriam-Webster
  2. keener: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. keener: Collins English Dictionary
  4. keener: Vocabulary.com
  5. Keener, keener, keener: Wordnik
  6. keener: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Keener, keener: Wiktionary
  8. Keener, keener: Dictionary.com
  9. keener: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Keener: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Keener: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. keener: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Keener: Rhymezone
  14. Keener: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. keener: FreeDictionary.org
  16. keener: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. keener: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. keener: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. keener: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. The Keener: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Keener)

▸ noun:  (dated) One who keens at a funeral.
▸ noun:  (informal, chiefly Canada) Someone who is excessively keen or eager, possibly making others look bad; a brown-noser.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:
keeno, greeter, leerer, jeerer, keeker, kicker, queener, pickeerer, querulist, henpecker, more...

Phrases:
Catherine Keener, Brandon Keener, Craig S. Keener, more...

Adjectives:
smart, gaudreault, keen, much, little, cold



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Similar:
keeno, greeter, leerer, jeerer, keeker, kicker, queener, pickeerer, querulist, henpecker, more...

Phrases:
Catherine Keener, Brandon Keener, Craig S. Keener, more...

Adjectives:
smart, gaudreault, keen, much, little, cold



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