Keen
[n] (Irish) a funeral lament sung with loud wailing
[adj] having a sharp cutting edge or point; "a keen blade"
[adj] as physically painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "lancinating pain"
[adj] (informal) very good; "a bully pulpit"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"
[adj] very penetrating and clear and sharp in operation; "an incisive mind"; "a keen intelligence"; "of sharp and active intellect"
[adj] intense or sharp; "suffered exquisite pain"; "felt exquisite pleasure"
[adj] having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations"
[v] express grief verbally
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Synonyms
acute, bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, cutting, dandy, discriminating, exquisite, good, great, groovy, incisive, intelligent, intense, knifelike, lament, lancinate, lancinating, neat, nifty, not bad(p), peachy, penetrating, penetrative, perceptive, pie
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ablaze, absorbing, ace-high, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, active, acute, adroit, afire, aggressive, agile, agog, alacritous, alert, algid, alive, all agog, animate, animated, anxious, apt, arctic, arden