eagers

Adjective

eager (comparative more eager or eagerer, superlative most eager or eagerest)

1. Desirous; keen to do or obtain something.
   • Stacey is very eager to go cycling this weekend.

   Synonyms:

   bursting

2. Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.
   • an eager algorithm
3. (dated) Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.
   • gold itself will be sometimes so eager, (as artists call it), that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 2, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC
4. (obsolete, literal) Sharp; sour; acid.
   • like eager droppings into milkc. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
5. (figuratively, obsolete) Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.
   • If so thou thinkest, vex him with eager words.c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...

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