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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
   "suffered keen pain"
   - exquisite
    
3. Very good
   "he did a keen job"
   - bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing, ripper [Austral], grouse [Austral, NZ], lovely
    
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"
    
6. Having a strong or impatient wish to do something
   - eager
    
7. Having or showing great excitement and interest
   - enthusiastic

1. A funeral lament sung with loud wailing

1. Express grief verbally
   "we keened the death of the child"
   - lament

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

See also: anxious, ardent, avid, crazy, dotty, dying, evangelical, evangelistic, gaga, glowing, good, gung ho, hot, impatient, intense, keenly, keenness, overeager, overenthusiastic, passionate, perceptive, raring, sharp, spirited, warm, wild, zealous

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

Encyclopedia: Keen