Eager vs. Yearning — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Eager and Yearning
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Eager
Strongly wanting to do or have something
The man was eager to please
Young intellectuals eager for knowledge
Yearning
A persistent, often melancholy desire; a longing
A yearning for romance and adventure.
Eager
Having or showing keen interest, intense desire, or impatient expectancy. See Usage Note at anxious.
Yearning
A wistful or melancholy longing.
She had a yearning to see her long-lost sister again.
Eager
(Obsolete) Tart; sharp; cutting.
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Yearning
Rennet (an enzyme to curdle milk in order to make cheese).
Eager
Variant of eagre.
Yearning
Prolonged unfulfilled desire or need
Eager
See tidal bore.
Yearning
Full of longing or unfulfilled desire;
Those wistful little ads that the lovelorn place in the classifieds
Eager
Desirous; keen to do or obtain something.
Stacey is very eager to go cycling this weekend.
The hounds were eager in the chase.
I was eager to show my teacher how much I'd learned over the holidays.
You stayed up all night to get to the front of the queue. You must be very eager to get tickets.
Eager
(comptheory) Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.
An eager algorithm
Eager
(dated) Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.
Eager
Sharp; sour; acid.
Eager
Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.
Eager
Alternative form of eagre(tidal bore).
Eager
Sharp; sour; acid.
Eager
Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.
Eager
Excited by desire in the pursuit of any object; ardent to pursue, perform, or obtain; keenly desirous; hotly longing; earnest; zealous; impetuous; vehement; as, the hounds were eager in the chase.
And gazed for tidings in my eager eyes.
How eagerly ye follow my disgraces!
When to her eager lips is broughtHer infant's thrilling kiss.
A crowd of eager and curious schoolboys.
Conceit and grief an eager combat fight.
Eager
Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.
Gold will be sometimes so eager, as artists call it, that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself.
Eager
Same as Eagre.
Eager
A high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)
Eager
Having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy;
Eager to learn
Eager to travel abroad
Eager for success
Eager helpers
An eager look
Eager
Marked by active interest and enthusiasm;
An avid sports fan
A great walker
An eager beaver
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