What is a keen person?
If you are keen on something, you like it a lot and are very enthusiastic about it. You use keen to indicate that someone has a lot of enthusiasm for a particular activity and spends a lot of time doing it.
Is keen an American word?
Hi Ryosuke, ‘Keen’ is not specific to either American or British English. It is used in both, but it is used rarely. English speakers in North America often use it because it is old, and so it can be used in sarcasm if we want to make an funny understatement by using very formal language to express a very simple idea.
What does the word Kean mean?
Meaning:ancient; fighter; keen wit or eye. Kean is a boy’s name meaning “ancient”, “fighter”, or “keen wit or eye”. It is a variant of the Gaelic name Cian and the Gaelic or Old English name Keane.
Is not keen meaning?
A few examples: I’m not very keen on baseball. – means you are not very interested in baseball. I am not very keen on cooking. – means you neither like cooking or are interested in it.
What does Keen mean UK?
Thus keen to+verb, and keen by itself as an adjective both mean, roughly, eager. Keen on+gerund or +noun means enjoying that activity or thing, while to be keen on a person means to fancy him or her (in the British sense).
What lack means?
1 : to be deficient or missing time is lacking for a full explanation. 2 : to be short or have need of something he will not lack for advisers The area does not lack for good restaurants. transitive verb. : to stand in need of : suffer from the absence or deficiency of lack the necessities of life She lacked confidence …
What does it mean to lack nothing?
: to have everything one needs Their children lack/want for nothing.
What is the opposite of lack of?
What is the opposite of lack?
| abundance | excess |
|---|---|
| slew | surfeit |
| extra | flood |
| fulsomeness | immoderacy |
| increase | nimiety |
What’s another way to say lack of?
What is another word for lack?
| deficiency | shortage |
|---|---|
| dearth | scarcity |
| shortfall | deficit |
| insufficiency | scarceness |
| paucity | meagreness |
What is it called when there is not enough of something?
If something is insufficient, it isn’t enough. A high school diploma is very helpful for getting a job, but by itself, it’s probably insufficient to land you a job as an astronaut. Something adequate is sufficient, and something inadequate is insufficient (in- meaning “not”).
What is a word for not feeling good enough?
other words for not good enough deficient. disappointing. distressing. mediocre. regrettable.
What does can’t get enough mean?
To love or thoroughly enjoy something; to desire a large or constant amount of something. This sushi is delicious—I can’t get enough!