Meanings (ES + gloss)
ardoroso • entusiasmado • entusiasta • fijo • interesado • motivado
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.
vehemente • voraz
Fierce, intense, vehement.
Her love of a good dinner herself, and her still keener love of the approbation she won by setting it before others, kept up perpetual warfare with her savingness […]
This boy has a keen appetite.
agudo • aguzado
Acute of mind, having or expressing mental acuteness; penetrating, sharp.
So, when remote futurity is brought / Before the keen inquiry of her thought, / A terrible sagacity informs / The poet's heart; […]
These books will fill, and well fill, certain stretches of life […] But in old or nervous or solemnest or dying hours, when one needs the impalpably soothing and vitalizing influen…
cortante
Of cold, wind, etc.: cutting, penetrating, piercing, sharp.
a keen wind
the cold is very keen
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