KEEN as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a funeral lament sung with loud wailing
   Hypernyms(s) keen is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • dirge (what does dirge mean?)
   • coronach (what does coronach mean?)
   • lament (what does lament mean?)
   • requiem (what does requiem mean?)
   • threnody (what does threnody mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • lament (what does lament mean?)
   • keen (what does keen mean?)

KEEN as VERB

1. Meaning
   • express grief verbally
   Synonym(s)
   • lament (what does lament mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • we lamented the death of the child
   Hypernyms(s) keen is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • express emotion (what does express emotion mean?)
   • express feelings (what does express feelings mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • keen (what does keen mean?)
   • elegy (what does elegy mean?)
   • lament (what does lament mean?)
   • dirge (what does dirge mean?)
   • coronach (what does coronach mean?)
   • lament (what does lament mean?)
   • requiem (what does requiem mean?)
   • threnody (what does threnody mean?)
   • lament (what does lament mean?)
   • lamentation (what does lamentation mean?)
   • plaint (what does plaint mean?)
   • wail (what does wail mean?)
   • lament (what does lament mean?)
   • lamentation (what does lamentation mean?)
   • plaint (what does plaint mean?)
   • wail (what does wail mean?)
   • lamentation (what does lamentation mean?)
   • mourning (what does mourning mean?)
   • mourner (what does mourner mean?)
   • griever (what does griever mean?)
   • sorrower (what does sorrower mean?)
   • lamenter (what does lamenter mean?)
   Entail(s)
   • grieve (what does grieve mean?)
   • sorrow (what does sorrow mean?)

KEEN as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • having a sharp cutting edge or point
   Usage Example(s)
   • a keen blade
   Similar To
   • sharp (what does sharp mean?)
2. Meaning
   • as physically painful as if caused by a sharp instrument
   Synonym(s)
   • cutting (what does cutting mean?)
   • knifelike (what does knifelike mean?)
   • lancinate (what does lancinate mean?)
   • lancinating (what does lancinating mean?)
   • piercing (what does piercing mean?)
   • stabbing (what does stabbing mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • a cutting wind
   • keen winds
   • knifelike cold
   • piercing knifelike pains
   • piercing cold
   • piercing criticism
   • a stabbing pain
   • lancinating pain
   Similar To
   • sharp (what does sharp mean?)
3. Meaning
   • very good
   Synonym(s)
   • bang-up (what does bang-up mean?)
   • bully (what does bully mean?)
   • corking (what does corking mean?)
   • cracking (what does cracking mean?)
   • dandy (what does dandy mean?)
   • great (what does great mean?)
   • groovy (what does groovy mean?)
   • neat (what does neat mean?)
   • nifty (what does nifty mean?)
   • not bad(p) (what does not bad(p) mean?)
   • peachy (what does peachy mean?)
   • slap-up (what does slap-up mean?)
   • smashing (what does smashing mean?)
   • swell (what does swell mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • he did a bully job
   • a neat sports car
   • had a great time at the party
   • you look simply smashing
   Similar To
   • good (what does good mean?)
4. Meaning
   • very penetrating and clear and sharp in operation
   Synonym(s)
   • incisive (what does incisive mean?)
   • sharp (what does sharp mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • an incisive mind
   • a keen intelligence
   • of sharp and active intellect
   Similar To
   • intelligent (what does intelligent mean?)
5. Meaning
   • intense or sharp
   Synonym(s)
   • exquisite (what does exquisite mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • suffered exquisite pain
   • felt exquisite pleasure
   Similar To
   • intense (what does intense mean?)
6. Meaning
   • having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
   Synonym(s)
   • acute (what does acute mean?)
   • discriminating (what does discriminating mean?)
   • incisive (what does incisive mean?)
   • knifelike (what does knifelike mean?)
   • penetrating (what does penetrating mean?)
   • penetrative (what does penetrative mean?)
   • piercing (what does piercing mean?)
   • sharp (what does sharp mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • 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 pene
   Similar To
   • perceptive (what does perceptive mean?)