Crossword-Solution: KEEN 4 letters, 341 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Keen	superl.	Sharp; having a fine edge or point; as, a keen razor, or a razor with a keen edge.
Keen	superl.	Acute of mind; sharp; penetrating; having or expressing mental acuteness; as, a man of keen understanding; a keen look; keen features.
Keen	superl.	Bitter; piercing; acrimonious; cutting; stinging; severe; as, keen satire or sarcasm.
Keen	superl.	Piercing; penetrating; cutting; sharp; -- applied to cold, wind, etc, ; as, a keen wind; the cold is very keen.
Keen	superl.	Eager; vehement; fierce; as, a keen appetite.
Keen	v. t.	To sharpen; to make cold.
Keen	n.	A prolonged wail for a deceased person. Cf. Coranach.
Keen	v. i.	To wail as a keener does.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
KEEN	anagram	ENKE, KENE, KNEE

We have 341 clues for the answer “KEEN”

Clue	Answers
"Walking Distance" Robert Earl	1 answer
Acute, as eyesight	1 answer
Acute, as vision	1 answer
Acute; sharp	1 answer
Acutely sensitive	1 answer
Astute jammer	1 answer
BEWAIL person	1 answer
Bewail, Irish style	1 answer
Bewail, in Ireland.	1 answer
Blunt's antonym	1 answer
Bobby-soxer's "nifty."	1 answer
Cry, Irish style	1 answer
Eager about, with "on"	1 answer
Eager or enthusiastic	1 answer
Eager, enthusiastic	1 answer
Enthusiastic about, with "on"	1 answer
Enthusiastic, in a way.	1 answer
Excited about, with "on"	1 answer
Fierce, like competition	1 answer
Finely sharpened	1 answer
Finely-sharpened	1 answer
Fresh from honing	1 answer
Have a good mourning?	1 answer
Having a sharp edge	1 answer
Having great interest	1 answer
Highly developed	1 answer
Highly developed, as eyesight	1 answer
Highly honed	1 answer
Highly insightful	1 answer
Highly perceptive, as vision	1 answer
Highly sharpened	1 answer
In old slang, it was a peachy follower	1 answer
Intellectually acute	1 answer
Intellectually sharp	1 answer
Intense or sharp	1 answer
It may be peachy	1 answer
Lament like a banshee	1 answer
Lament, Irish style	1 answer
Like a hawk's eyesight	1 answer
Like a hound's nose	1 answer
Like an eagle's eye	1 answer
Like an eagle's vision	1 answer
Like excellent eyesight	1 answer
Loud wail	1 answer
Mama actor Malcolm	1 answer
Much interested.	1 answer
Not too ___ on; disliking	1 answer
Old-school "rad"	1 answer
Old-time radio sleuth	1 answer
Penetrating, as intellect	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

AETER

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with KEEN (5)

There the ancient Arrow-maker Made his arrow-heads of sandstone, Arrow-heads of chalcedony, Arrow-heads of flint and jasper, Smoothed and sharpened at the edges, Hard and polished, keen and costly.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

Experience is a keen teacher; and long before you had mastered your A B C, or knew where the “white sails” of the Chesapeake were bound, you began, I see, to gauge the wretchedness of the slave, not by his hunger and want, not by his lashes and toil, but by the cruel and blighting death which gathers over his soul.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992

These circumambient gleams were accompanied by a keen sibilation that was almost a whistling—also springing from all sides of her at once.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

For ’tis the hope of parents they may rear A brood of sons submissive, keen to avenge Their father’s wrongs, and count his friends their own.

The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

Some were bathing in exactly the place where I had saved Weena, and that suddenly gave me a keen stab of pain.

The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992

Quotes with KEEN (3)

Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be neutralized by other tendencies. But with every being the primal emotions are there. All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I hav…

Clarence Darrow The Story of My Life

Realizing the seriously ruthless, venomous habits and agendas of evil always instills a more fierce passion and longing for a closer God. Men, out of pride, may claim their own authorities over what constitutes good and evil; they may self-proclaim a keen knowledge of subjective morality through religion or science. But that is only if they are acknowledging the work of evil as a cartoon-like, petty little rain cloud in the sky that merely wants to dampen one's spirits. On th…

Criss Jami Killosophy

How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.

Nadeem Aslam The Wasted Vigil

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 572 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).