eagre

adjective

  1. 1

    Sharp; sour; acid.

  2. 2

    Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.

  3. 3

    Desirous; keen to do or obtain something.

    “I was eager to show my teacher how much I'd learned over the holidays.”
  4. 4

    Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.

  5. 5

    Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.

    “an eager algorithm”

Synonyms

noun

  1. 1

    A tidal bore

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