keen

The word “keen” has 1 syllable: keen

It's pronounced as /kiːn/


What is synonym and antonym for keen?

In the thesaurus, “keen” has 444 synonyms and 209 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for keen along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for keen

  • A-OK
  • A1
  • Einstein
  • OK
  • accentuated
  • acceptable
  • accurate
  • acid
  • acute
  • adequate
  • aggravated
  • agog
  • agonizing
  • alert
  • all right
  • almighty
  • ambitious
  • amenable
  • anguish
  • animate
  • animated
  • antsy
  • anxious
  • appetent
  • apt
  • ardent
  • astute
  • athirst
  • avid
  • awesome
  • bang-up
  • banner
  • bawl
  • bay
  • beautiful
  • beef
  • bellyache
  • bemoan
  • better
  • bewail
  • bitch
  • biting
  • bitter
  • bleat
  • blistering
  • blubber
  • blue-chip
  • blue-ribbon
  • boffo
  • bonnie
  • bonny
  • boss
  • brag
  • brainy
  • brave
  • breathless
  • bright
  • brilliant
  • brisk
  • bully
  • bumper
  • canny
  • capital
  • carp
  • caterwaul
  • caustic
  • cavil
  • cerebral
  • champing at the bit
  • choice
  • chomping at the bit
  • classic
  • classical
  • clawlike
  • clear
  • clever
  • complain
  • complaint
  • concentrated
  • cool
  • corking
  • corrosive
  • covetous
  • crab
  • crackerjack
  • cracking
  • crafty
  • craving
  • crazy
  • creative
  • cri de coeur
  • croak
  • cry
  • cunning
  • cutting
  • daggerlike
  • dandy
  • decent
  • deep
  • deepened
  • delicate
  • deplore
  • desirous
  • devoted
  • discerning
  • discriminating
  • disposed
  • divine
  • dolor
  • dope
  • down
  • dreadful
  • dying to
  • dynamite
  • eager
  • earnest
  • ebullient
  • edged
  • edgy
  • educated
  • emphasized
  • engaged
  • enhanced
  • enthused
  • enthusiastic
  • erudite
  • excellent
  • exceptional
  • excited
  • excruciating
  • exhaustive
  • explosive
  • exquisite
  • extreme
  • fab
  • fabulous
  • famous
  • fancy
  • fantabulous
  • fantastic
  • fast
  • fearful
  • fearsome
  • ferocious
  • fervent
  • fervid
  • fierce
  • fine
  • first-class
  • first-rate
  • first-string
  • five-star
  • fond of
  • four-star
  • foxy
  • fret
  • frightful
  • frontline
  • furious
  • fuss
  • game
  • gangbuster
  • gangbusters
  • geeked
  • genial
  • ghastly
  • gilt-edge
  • gilt-edged
  • glad
  • gone
  • good
  • grand
  • great
  • greedy
  • grief
  • grieving
  • gripe
  • grizzle
  • groan
  • groovy
  • grouch
  • ground
  • grouse
  • growl
  • grumble
  • grump
  • gung ho
  • gung-ho
  • hair-trigger
  • hand-wringing
  • hankering
  • happy
  • hard
  • harsh
  • heady
  • heartache
  • heartbreak
  • heavenly
  • heavy
  • heavy-duty
  • heightened
  • hellacious
  • hepped up
  • high-class
  • high-grade
  • high-test
  • highbrow
  • holler
  • honed
  • hopped-up
  • hot
  • howl
  • hung up
  • hungry
  • hype
  • hyperacute
  • hyperintelligent
  • hypersensitive
  • immense
  • impassioned
  • impatient
  • incisive
  • inclined
  • informed
  • ingenious
  • insightful
  • intelligent
  • intense
  • intensified
  • intensive
  • intent
  • interested
  • inveigh
  • inventive
  • invigorating
  • jabbing
  • jagged
  • jim-dandy
  • judicious
  • juiced
  • kick
  • kick up a fuss
  • kick up a stink
  • knifelike
  • knowing
  • knowledgeable
  • kvetch
  • lacerating
  • lament
  • lamentation
  • learned
  • literate
  • lively
  • logical
  • longing
  • lovely
  • magnified
  • marvellous
  • marvelous
  • maunder
  • mean
  • moan
  • mourning
  • murmur
  • mutter
  • nag
  • neat
  • needlelike
  • nifty
  • nimble
  • nippy
  • noble
  • number one
  • numero uno
  • nuts
  • observant
  • obsessed
  • okay
  • out of this world
  • out-of-sight
  • outcry
  • oversensitive
  • par excellence
  • passable
  • peachy
  • peachy keen
  • penetrating
  • perceptive
  • percipient
  • perfervid
  • perspicacious
  • phat
  • piercing
  • pining
  • plaint
  • pointed
  • pointy
  • precise
  • premium
  • prickly
  • prime
  • primo
  • prize
  • prizewinning
  • profound
  • protest
  • prudent
  • pumped
  • quality
  • quibble
  • quick
  • quick-witted
  • radical
  • raring
  • rational
  • raw
  • razor-sharp
  • ready
  • reasonable
  • receptive
  • regret
  • repine
  • resourceful
  • restive
  • restless
  • righteous
  • rigorous
  • sagacious
  • sage
  • sane
  • sapient
  • sardonic
  • satirical
  • satisfactory
  • savvy
  • scholarly
  • schooled
  • scratching
  • scream
  • screech
  • select
  • sensational
  • sensible
  • sensitive
  • severe
  • sharp
  • sharp as a tack
  • sharp-witted
  • sharpened
  • shrewd
  • shriek
  • shrill
  • skilled
  • slick
  • smart
  • smarting
  • snappy
  • sob
  • solicitous
  • sorrow
  • sorrowing
  • sound
  • special
  • spikey
  • spiky
  • spirited
  • splendid
  • sprightly
  • squall
  • squawk
  • squeal
  • stabbing
  • standard
  • stellar
  • sterling
  • stew
  • stinging
  • stoked
  • stressed
  • strong
  • stropped
  • subtle
  • suffering
  • superb
  • superfine
  • superior
  • superlative
  • supernal
  • supersensitive
  • supersmart
  • swell
  • tart
  • tears
  • terrible
  • terrific
  • thirsty
  • thorough
  • tingling
  • tip-top
  • tolerable
  • too much
  • top
  • top-notch
  • top-of-the-line
  • top-shelf
  • topflight
  • topping
  • traditional
  • trained
  • trenchant
  • ultrasmart
  • ululate
  • unblunted
  • unreluctant
  • unsurpassed
  • vehement
  • vicious
  • violent
  • vivacious
  • voracious
  • wail
  • warm
  • weeping
  • well-read
  • whetted
  • whimper
  • whine
  • whinge
  • whiz
  • wild
  • willing
  • wily
  • wise
  • wizard
  • woe
  • wonderful
  • worry
  • yammer
  • yaup
  • yawp
  • yell
  • yelp
  • yowl
  • zealous

Antonyms for keen

  • abated
  • absurd
  • accept
  • airheaded
  • alleviated
  • aloof
  • apathetic
  • applaud
  • asinine
  • atrocious
  • averse
  • awful
  • bad
  • balmy
  • bear
  • birdbrained
  • blunt
  • blunted
  • boneheaded
  • boobish
  • brain-dead
  • brainless
  • bubbleheaded
  • calm
  • casual
  • cheer
  • cheering
  • chuckleheaded
  • cockeyed
  • commend
  • cool
  • countenance
  • crackpot
  • crazy
  • crow
  • cuckoo
  • daffy
  • daft
  • dead
  • deadened
  • decreased
  • delight
  • dense
  • detached
  • dim
  • dim-witted
  • diminished
  • dimmed
  • dippy
  • disinclined
  • disinterested
  • dispassionate
  • doltish
  • dopey
  • dopy
  • dorky
  • dotty
  • dull
  • dulled
  • dumb
  • dunderheaded
  • eased
  • empty-headed
  • endure
  • even
  • execrable
  • exultation
  • fading
  • fatuous
  • featherheaded
  • feeble
  • feebleminded
  • flat
  • fool
  • foolish
  • gentle
  • gormless
  • half-baked
  • half-witted
  • halfhearted
  • harebrained
  • hesitant
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • ignorant
  • illiterate
  • imbecile
  • imbecilic
  • impassive
  • imperceptive
  • imprecise
  • inaccurate
  • incurious
  • indifferent
  • inferior
  • insane
  • insensible
  • insensitive
  • insouciant
  • kind
  • knuckleheaded
  • kookie
  • kooky
  • lackadaisical
  • lamebrain
  • lamebrained
  • languid
  • languorous
  • laughing
  • lessened
  • lethargic
  • level
  • light
  • lightened
  • loath
  • loathe
  • looney
  • loony
  • loth
  • lousy
  • low-grade
  • lowbrow
  • lukewarm
  • lunatic
  • lunkheaded
  • mad
  • mediocre
  • middling
  • mild
  • mindless
  • moderate
  • moderated
  • moronic
  • nice
  • nonchalant
  • nonintellectual
  • nonsensical
  • numb
  • nutty
  • obtuse
  • opaque
  • pathetic
  • pinheaded
  • pointless
  • poor
  • preposterous
  • qualified
  • reduced
  • rejoice
  • rejoicing
  • reluctant
  • rotten
  • rounded
  • sappy
  • screwball
  • second-class
  • second-rate
  • senseless
  • shallow
  • silly
  • simple
  • simpleminded
  • slick
  • slow
  • slow-witted
  • smiling
  • smooth
  • soft
  • softheaded
  • soothing
  • spiritless
  • stolid
  • stupid
  • subdued
  • substandard
  • superficial
  • sweet
  • take
  • terrible
  • thick
  • thick-witted
  • thickheaded
  • tolerate
  • tomfool
  • unacademic
  • unbrilliant
  • unconcerned
  • uneager
  • uneducated
  • unenthusiastic
  • uninformed
  • unintellectual
  • unintelligent
  • uninterested
  • unsatisfactory
  • unsmart
  • untaught
  • unthinking
  • unwilling
  • unwise
  • vacuous
  • vile
  • wacky
  • weak
  • weak-minded
  • whacky
  • witless
  • wretched
  • zany

Meanings of keen

  • verb
    1. To make cold, to sharpen.
    2. To utter a keen.
    3. To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.
    4. To mourn.
  • adjective
    1. Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness or willingness; eager, enthusiastic, interested.
    2. Fierce, intense, vehement.
    3. Having a fine edge or point; sharp.
    4. Acute of mind, having or expressing mental acuteness; penetrating, sharp.
    5. Acrimonious, bitter, piercing.
    6. Of cold, wind, etc.: cutting, penetrating, piercing, sharp.
    7. Of prices, extremely low as to be competitive.
    8. Marvelous.
    9. Brave, courageous; audacious, bold.
  • noun
    1. A prolonged wail for a deceased person.

Example Sentences

  • She has a keen interest in astronomy and spends hours studying the stars.
  • The detective's keen observation skills helped solve the complex case.
  • As a nature enthusiast, he possesses a keen awareness of the environment.
  • The chef's keen sense of taste allows him to create exquisite culinary masterpieces.
  • With a keen eye for detail, the artist captures intricate scenes in every painting.

On this page you'll find 653 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to keen, such as: A-OK, A1, Einstein, OK, abated, absurd, accentuated.

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Related Words

A1

  • 24-carat
  • A-OK
  • OK
  • acceptable
  • ace
  • adequate
  • all right
  • awesome
  • bang-up
  • banner
  • beautiful
  • best
  • better
  • blue-chip
  • blue-ribbon
  • boffo
  • bonnie
  • bonny
  • boss
  • brag
  • brave
  • bully
  • bumper
  • capital
  • choice
  • choicest
  • classic
  • classical
  • cool
  • corking
  • crackerjack
  • cracking
  • dandy
  • decent
  • divine
  • dope
  • down
  • dynamite
  • excellent
  • exceptional
  • fab
  • fabulous
  • famous
  • fancy
  • fantabulous
  • fantastic
  • fine
  • first-class
  • first-rate
  • first-string
  • five-star
  • flawless
  • four-star
  • frontline
  • gangbuster
  • gangbusters
  • gilt-edge
  • gilt-edged
  • gone
  • good
  • grand
  • great
  • greatest
  • groovy
  • heavenly
  • high-class
  • high-grade
  • high-test
  • highest
  • hot
  • hype
  • ideal
  • immense
  • jim-dandy
  • keen
  • lovely
  • marvellous
  • marvelous
  • matchless
  • maximum
  • mean
  • most advantageous
  • most favorable
  • neat
  • nifty
  • noble
  • number one
  • numero uno
  • okay
  • optimal
  • out of this world
  • out-of-sight
  • par excellence
  • passable
  • peachy
  • peachy keen
  • peak
  • peerless
  • perfect
  • phat
  • premium
  • prime
  • primo
  • prize
  • prizewinning
  • quality
  • radical
  • righteous
  • satisfactory
  • select
  • sensational
  • slick
  • solid-gold
  • special
  • splendid
  • standard
  • stellar
  • sterling
  • superb
  • superfine
  • superior
  • superlative
  • supernal
  • swell
  • terrific
  • tip-top
  • tolerable
  • too much
  • top
  • top-notch
  • top-of-the-line
  • top-shelf
  • topflight
  • topping
  • traditional
  • unsurpassed
  • wizard
  • wonderful
  • world-class

fab

  • 10
  • A-1
  • A-OK
  • A1
  • OK
  • able
  • abnormal
  • acceptable
  • aces
  • adept
  • adequate
  • admirable
  • adroit
  • agreeable
  • all right
  • amazing
  • ambitious
  • astonishing
  • astounding
  • august
  • awe-inspiring
  • awesome
  • bad
  • bang-up
  • banner
  • baroque
  • beaming
  • beautiful
  • best
  • better
  • big
  • bizarre
  • blood-tingling
  • blue-chip
  • blue-ribbon
  • boffo
  • bonnie
  • bonny
  • boss
  • brag
  • brave
  • breathtaking
  • bright
  • brilliant
  • bully
  • bumper
  • capital
  • cardinal
  • ceremonious
  • chief
  • choice
  • classic
  • classical
  • colossal
  • complete
  • consequential
  • consummate
  • cool
  • corking
  • costly
  • courtly
  • crack
  • crackerjack
  • cracking
  • curious
  • dandy
  • dazzling
  • decent
  • dignified
  • distinguished
  • divine
  • dominant
  • doozie
  • dope
  • down
  • dreamy
  • dynamite
  • electrifying
  • elegant
  • elevated
  • eminent
  • enchanting
  • enjoyable
  • enormous
  • essential
  • exalted
  • excellent
  • exceptional
  • expert
  • exquisite
  • extraordinary
  • extravagant
  • fabulous
  • famous
  • fancy
  • fantabulous
  • fantastic
  • fantastical
  • fat
  • fictitious
  • fine
  • first
  • first-class
  • first-rate
  • first-string
  • five-star
  • flamboyant
  • four-star
  • frantic
  • frontline
  • gangbuster
  • gangbusters
  • gifted
  • gigantic
  • gilt-edge
  • gilt-edged
  • glittering
  • glorious
  • glowing
  • gnarly
  • gone
  • good
  • gorgeous
  • grand
  • grandiose
  • great
  • greatest
  • gripping
  • groovy
  • hair-raising
  • haughty
  • heavenly
  • heavy
  • hellacious
  • high-class
  • high-grade
  • high-test
  • highest
  • hot
  • huge
  • hype
  • illustrious
  • immense
  • imperial
  • imposing
  • impressive
  • inconceivable
  • incredible
  • influential
  • jim-dandy
  • keen
  • large
  • lavish
  • leading
  • legendary
  • lofty
  • lovely
  • lustrous
  • luxurious
  • mad
  • magnific
  • magnificent
  • magnifico
  • main
  • majestic
  • marvellous
  • marvelous
  • masterly
  • material
  • mean
  • meaningful
  • mind-bending
  • mind-blowing
  • mind-boggling
  • miraculous
  • momentous
  • mondo
  • monster
  • monumental
  • neat
  • nice
  • nifty
  • noble
  • nonpareil
  • noteworthy
  • number one
  • numero uno
  • odd
  • off beaten path
  • okay
  • opulent
  • ornate
  • ostentatious
  • out of sight
  • out of the ordinary
  • out of this world
  • out-of-sight
  • out-of-this-world
  • outrageous
  • outstanding
  • overwhelming
  • palatial
  • par excellence
  • paramount
  • particular
  • passable
  • peachy
  • peachy keen
  • peculiar
  • peerless
  • phat
  • phenomenal
  • pleasant
  • pleasurable
  • plush
  • pompous
  • posh
  • premium
  • pretentious
  • preternatural
  • prime
  • primo
  • prize
  • prizewinning
  • prodigious
  • quality
  • rad
  • radiant
  • radical
  • rare
  • refulgent
  • regal
  • remarkable
  • renowned
  • resplendent
  • rewarding
  • rich
  • righteous
  • rip-roaring
  • riveting
  • rousing
  • royal
  • satisfactory
  • satisfying
  • select
  • sensational
  • shivering
  • significant
  • singular
  • slick
  • smashing
  • solid
  • solid-gold
  • something
  • something else
  • sovereign
  • special
  • spectacular
  • splashy
  • splendid
  • splendiferous
  • splendrous
  • staggering
  • standard
  • startling
  • state-of-the-art
  • stately
  • stellar
  • sterling
  • stimulating
  • stirring
  • strange
  • striking
  • stunning
  • stupendous
  • sublime
  • substantial
  • sumptuous
  • super
  • super-duper
  • superb
  • superfine
  • superior
  • superlative
  • supernal
  • supreme
  • surpassing
  • surprising
  • swanky
  • swell
  • swinging
  • talented
  • terrific
  • tip-top
  • titantic
  • to the max
  • tolerable
  • too much
  • top
  • top drawer
  • top-notch
  • top-of-the-line
  • top-shelf
  • topflight
  • topping
  • tops
  • tough
  • traditional
  • transcendent
  • trembling
  • tremendous
  • unbelievable
  • uncommon
  • unfamiliar
  • unheard-of
  • unimaginable
  • unique
  • unprecedented
  • unreal
  • unsurpassed
  • unthinkable
  • unusual
  • unwonted
  • utmost
  • vast
  • venerable
  • very good
  • weighty
  • weird
  • wicked
  • wild
  • wizard
  • wonderful
  • wondrous
  • world
  • world-class
  • zero cool

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eager

  • acquisitive
  • agog
  • ambitious
  • amenable
  • antsy
  • anxious
  • appetent
  • ardent
  • athirst
  • avid
  • breathless
  • champing at the bit
  • chomping at the bit
  • covetous
  • craving
  • crazy
  • desiring
  • desirous
  • disposed
  • dying to
  • earnest
  • engaged
  • enthused
  • enthusiastic
  • excited
  • fervent
  • fervid
  • game
  • geeked
  • glad
  • great
  • greedy
  • gung ho
  • gung-ho
  • hankering
  • happy
  • heated
  • hepped up
  • hopped-up
  • hot
  • hot to trot
  • hung up
  • hungry
  • impatient
  • inclined
  • intent
  • interested
  • juiced
  • keen
  • longing
  • nuts
  • obsessed
  • pining
  • pumped
  • raring
  • ready
  • ready and willing
  • restive
  • restless
  • self-starting
  • solicitous
  • stoked
  • thirsty
  • unreluctant
  • vehement
  • voracious
  • warmblooded
  • wild
  • willing
  • wishful
  • yearning
  • zealous

earnest

  • absorption
  • ardent
  • attentiveness
  • businesslike
  • busy
  • close
  • concentration
  • constant
  • decisiveness
  • deliberation
  • determination
  • determined
  • devoted
  • dignified
  • diligent
  • distinguished
  • eager
  • earnestness
  • elevated
  • engrossment
  • enthrallment
  • fervent
  • fervid
  • firm
  • firmness
  • fixed
  • for real
  • gloomy
  • grave
  • graveness
  • gravitas
  • gravity
  • grim
  • harsh
  • heartfelt
  • humorless
  • humorlessness
  • immersion
  • impassioned
  • industrious
  • intensity
  • intent
  • intentness
  • keen
  • mean business
  • meaningful
  • no-fooling
  • no-nonsense
  • passionate
  • perseverant
  • playing hard ball
  • po-faced
  • professional
  • purposeful
  • purposefulness
  • resolute
  • resoluteness
  • resolve
  • resolved
  • sedate
  • sedulous
  • serious
  • serious-minded
  • serious-mindedness
  • seriousness
  • severe
  • sincere
  • sober
  • soberness
  • sobersided
  • sobriety
  • solemn
  • solemnity
  • solemnness
  • somber
  • stable
  • staid
  • staidness
  • steady
  • stern
  • strict
  • thoughtful
  • uncomic
  • unsmiling
  • urgent
  • vehement
  • warm
  • weighty
  • wholehearted
  • zealous

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