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Word families (Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs): keenness, keen, keenly
Xem thêm: lament, acute, discriminating, incisive, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp, exquisite, bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, neat, nifty, not bad(p), peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing, cutting, knifelike, piercing, stabbing, lancinate, lancinating
keen adj.
VERBS appear, be, feel, look, seem, sound | remain
ADV. awfully, desperately, especially, extremely, frightfully, mad (informal), more than, particularly, really, terribly, very He's mad keen on football. She's a very keen gardener. | not at all, not overly, not too The banks were not at all keen to lend to somebody who actually seemed to need money. | fairly, pretty, quite, rather | always She was always keen to hear the local gossip. | obviously | naturally, understandably She was naturally keen to make a good impression.
PREP. for They were desperately keen for information. | on Sally's quite keen on the idea.
PHRASES as keen as mustard (= very keen)
n.
v.
we lamented the death of the child
adj.
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 penetrative observations
suffered exquisite pain
felt exquisite pleasure
he did a bully job
a neat sports car
had a great time at the party
you look simply smashing
a cutting wind
keen winds
knifelike cold
piercing knifelike pains
piercing cold
piercing criticism
a stabbing pain
lancinating pain
a keen blade