eagerly

Language: en

🇺🇸 /ˈiːgɜrliː/

📖 Definitions

  1. adverb
    In a manner showing keen interest, enthusiasm, or impatient desire; with great eagerness.; With intense longing or anticipation; in a way that suggests strong desire for something to happen.; With avid or greedy enthusiasm; in a manner suggesting voracious appetite or consumption.; With zealous or ardent effort; in a way that shows active and energetic pursuit.; In computing, in a manner that performs operations immediately rather than deferring them; as opposed to lazily.

🔗 Details

Word forms

Comparative: more eagerly Superlative: most eagerly

Collocations

eagerly awaitedeagerly anticipatedeagerly acceptedeagerly soughteagerly embracedeagerly awaited

Derivatives

eagereagerness

Synonyms

enthusiasticallykeenlyavidlyzealouslyardently

Antonyms

reluctantlyapatheticallyindifferently

Commonly confused

anxiously
EN: 'Eagerly' implies positive, enthusiastic anticipation; 'anxiously' implies worry or nervousness about the outcome.

Spelling tips

EN: Remember 'eagerly' is formed from 'eager' + 'ly' — do not insert an extra 'e' (not 'eagerely').

💬 Examples

  1. The children eagerly opened their presents on Christmas morning.

  2. She eagerly awaited the results of the medical examination.

  3. The starving dog eagerly devoured the food placed before it.

  4. The young scientist eagerly pursued every lead in her research.

  5. The framework eagerly loads all related entities when the parent object is fetched.