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1. Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
   - acute, discriminating, incisive, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp
    
2. Intense or sharp
   - exquisite
    
3. Very good
   - bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing, grouse [Austral, NZ], ripper [Austral]
    
4. Painful as if caused by a sharp instrument
   "keen winds"
   - cutting, knifelike, piercing, stabbing, lancinate, lancinating
    
5. Having a sharp cutting edge or point
   "a keen blade"

1. A funeral lament sung with loud wailing

1. Express grief verbally
   - lament

Derived forms: keenest, keening, keened, keens, keener

See also: good, intense, keenly, keenness, perceptive, sharp

Type of: coronach, dirge, express emotion, express feelings, lament, requiem, threnode, threnody

Encyclopedia: Keen