keener

Plural: keeners

Adjective Satellite

• having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
• intense or sharp
• very good
• painful as if caused by a sharp instrument
• having a sharp cutting edge or point

Adj

• comparative form of keen: more keen

Noun

• One who wails loudly in lamentation for the dead, often professionally.
• One who keens at a funeral.
• Someone who is excessively keen or eager, possibly making others look bad; a brown-noser.

Examples

• After missing a seven-letter word, he felt like a KEENER, mourning his lost opportunity.

Synonyms

acute, bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, cutting, dandy, discriminating, exquisite, great, groovy, incisive, keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp, slap-up, smashing, stabbing, swell

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