keen
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a funeral lament sung with loud wailing
Types & categories
- dirge hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
express grief verbally
we lamented the death of the child
Types & categories
- express emotion hypernym
Related & opposite
- lamentation derivation
- elegy derivation
- keen derivation
- dirge derivation
- lamentation derivation
- mourner derivation
- sorrow entails
Sense 3 adjective
having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
an acute observer of politics and politicians
Related & opposite
- incisiveness derivation
- sharpness derivation
- fathom derivation
- perceptive similar to
Sense 4 adjective
intense or sharp
suffered exquisite pain
Related & opposite
- intense similar to
Sense 5 adjective
very good
he did a bully job
Related & opposite
- colloquialism domain usage
- good similar to
Sense 6 adjective
painful as if caused by a sharp instrument
a cutting wind
Related & opposite
- sharp similar to
Sense 7 adjective
having a sharp cutting edge or point
a keen blade
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Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | lament |
| 1 | domain region | Related & opposite | Hibernia |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | dirge |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | lamentation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | elegy |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | keen |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | dirge |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | lamentation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | mourner |
| 2 | entails | Related & opposite | sorrow |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | express emotion |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | incisiveness |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | sharpness |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | fathom |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | perceptive |
| 4 | similar to | Related & opposite | intense |
| 5 | domain usage | Related & opposite | colloquialism |
| 5 | similar to | Related & opposite | good |
| 6 | similar to | Related & opposite | sharp |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | keenness |
| 7 | similar to | Related & opposite | sharp |