Keenname

• 1

  A surname.

keenadj詞源 1/kiːn/

• 1

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

  • I’m keen on computers.
  • I’m keen on you.
• 2

  Fierce, intense, vehement.

  • This boy has a keen appetite.
  • [N]euer did I know / A creature that did beare the ſhape of man / So keene and greedy to confound a man.
• 3

  Having a fine edge or point; sharp.

  • The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the Razors edge, inuisible: […]
  • Come thick Night, / And pall thee in the dunneſt ſmoake of Hell, / That my keene Knife ſee not the Wound it makes, / Nor Heauen peepe through the Blanket of the darke, / To cry, hold, hold.
• 4

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

  • For when we rage, aduiſe is often ſeene By blunting vs to make our wits more keene.
  • So, when remote futurity is brought / Before the keen inquiry of her thought, / A terrible sagacity informs / The poet's heart; […]
• 5

  Acrimonious, bitter, piercing.

  • keen satire or sarcasm
  • O lawfull let it be / That I have roome with Rome to curſe a while, / Good Father Cardinall, cry thou Amen / To my keene curſes; for without my wrong / There is no tongue hath power to curſe him right.
• 6

  Cutting, penetrating, piercing, sharp.

  • a keen wind
  • the cold is very keen
• 7

  Of prices, extremely low as to be competitive.

• 8

  datedinformalMarvelous.

  • I just got this peachy keen new dress.
  • Oh, but they're weird and they're wonderful / Oh, Bennie, she's really keen / She's got electric boots, a mohair suit / You know I read it in a magazine, oh / B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets

keenverb詞源 1/kiːn/

• 1

  rareTo make cold, to sharpen.

  • This is the pureſt exerciſe of health, / The kind refreſher of the ſummer-heats; / Nor, when cold Winter keens the brightening flood, / Would I weak-ſhivering linger on the brink.

keennoun詞源 2/kiːn/

• 1

  A prolonged wail for a deceased person.

  • [S]he went so swiftly that he could only follow her to the door. The large shape of the car swallowed her up; and the car twisted softly around the little drive and away to the London road. Minutes later he heard its Klaxon, just one sharp keen, like the harsh cry of a sea-bird.

keenverb詞源 2/kiːn/

• 1

  To utter a keen.

  • Last night he had put down too much Potheen / (A vulgar blend of Methyl and Benzene) / That, at some Wake, he might the better keen. / (Keen—meaning 'brisk'? Nay, here the Language warps: / 'Tis singing bawdy Ballads to a Corpse.)
• 2

  To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.

  • Pelicans fly below us with stiffly formal strokes, and gulls wheel and keen.
  • Satiran, lost in his own grief, shuddered once, then lifted his head to the sky and keened out his loss to the heavens.
• 3

  To mourn.

  • I keened my Gran, I keened my babies, but then my words poured out of my grief. I don't have the full heart like that for Owen, sorry as I am for his goin. Without the heavy grief on me I can maybe think of the words easier.
  • She sniffed and nodded and cried and wailed and keened for her husband, who would never come back to her.