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keen
Synonyms and Antonyms of keen
- pilots with especially keen eyesight
- The keen wind gave me chapped lips.
- My doctor lanced the boil with a keen scalpel.
- readers who were keen enough to realize that the writer was being satirical
acute, astute, discerning, heady, insightful, knowing, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, sagacious, sapient, savvy, wise
cerebral, erudite, genial, highbrow, knowledgeable, learned, literate, scholarly, well-read
creative, inventive, judicious, prudent, sage, sane, sapient, sensible, sound, wise
ignorant, illiterate, lowbrow, nonintellectual, unacademic, uneducated, uninformed, unintellectual, untaught, unthinking
absurd, asinine, balmy, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dippy, dotty, fool, half-baked, harebrained, insane, kooky (also kookie), loony (also looney), lunatic, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, tomfool, wacky (also whacky), zany
airheaded, birdbrained, boneheaded, brain-dead, brainless, bubbleheaded, chuckleheaded, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey (also dopy), dorky [slang], dull, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), lunkheaded, mindless, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, senseless, simple, slow, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, stupid, thick, thickheaded, thick-witted, unintelligent, vacuous, weak-minded, witless
- a keen hunger for fame and fortune in the fashion industry
champing at the bit, chomping at the bit
- Movies gave him keen enjoyment like nothing else.
Synonym Discussion of keen
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- sharp enough to spot a confidence game
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- a keen observer of the political scene
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- an acute sense of style
keen
Synonyms and Antonyms of keen
- the loud keens of the mourners
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