Usually means: Eagerly sharp in perception, intellect.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. keen: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. keen, keen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. keen, keen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. keen: Collins English Dictionary
  5. keen: Vocabulary.com
  6. Keen, keen: Wordnik
  7. keen: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Keen, keen: Wiktionary
  9. keen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. keen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. keen: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Keen, keen: Dictionary.com
  13. keen (adj.), keen (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. keen: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. KEEN, KeeN, Keen (band), Keen (shoe company), Keen (surname), Keen: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Keen: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. keen: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. keen: Rhymezone
  19. keen: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. keen: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. keen: Free Dictionary
  22. keen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. keen: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. keen: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. keen: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. keen: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. KEEN: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. keen: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. keen: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See keened as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (chiefly Commonwealth) Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness or willingness; eager, enthusiastic, interested.
adjective:  Fierce, intense, vehement.
adjective:  Having a fine edge or point; sharp.
adjective:  Acute of mind, having or expressing mental acuteness; penetrating, sharp.
adjective:  Acrimonious, bitter, piercing.
adjective:  Of cold, wind, etc.: cutting, penetrating, piercing, sharp.
adjective:  (British) Of prices, extremely low as to be competitive.
adjective:  (US, informal, dated) Marvelous.
adjective:  (obsolete) Brave, courageous; audacious, bold.
verb:  (transitive, rare) To make cold, to sharpen.
noun:  A prolonged wail for a deceased person.
verb:  (intransitive) To utter a keen.
verb:  (transitive) To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.
verb:  (transitive) To mourn.
noun:  A surname.

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