eager
Champing at bit
Eager describes strong enthusiasm or impatient desire for something anticipated: eager to please, eager for news, an eager student.
The word suggests positive energy and readiness rather than passive waiting.
An eager beaver is someone who shows excessive enthusiasm, sometimes annoyingly so.
Eagerly anticipating something
- enthusiasticShowing intense eager enjoyment
- passionateIntensely emotional or enthusiastic
- energeticHaving much vigor
- ferventIntensely and sincerely felt
ardent · zealous · exuberant · animated · spirited · keen · zestful · dynamic
Awaiting something foreseen
- anxiousTroubled by uncertainty
- impatientUnwilling to wait
- restlessUnable to be still
- antsyRestlessly eager or nervous
fidgety · waiting · hopeful · ready · poised · breathless · on edge · champing
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amenable · cooperative · accommodating · obliging · compliant · game · prompt · responsive
excited
Eagerly anticipating something
- enthusiasticShowing intense eager enjoyment
- passionateIntensely emotional or enthusiastic
- energeticHaving much vigor
fervent · ardent · zealous · exuberant · animated · spirited · keen · zestful · dynamic · vivacious
expectant
Awaiting something foreseen
antsy · fidgety · waiting · hopeful · ready · poised · breathless · on edge · champing · itching
ready
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open · amenable · cooperative · accommodating · obliging · compliant · game · prompt · responsive · available
longing
Intense, persistent desire
wishing · hoping · aspiring · pining · aching · hungering · thirsting · coveting · dreaming · desirous
sharp
Fine-edged, or astute
intent · earnest · serious · dedicated · committed · diligent · assiduous · industrious · determined · driven
- good feelingshappy, joy, content, pleased, glad
- attitudespositive, negative, ambition, apathy, curiosity
- commitment levelscommitted, dedicated, devoted, loyal, faithful
- crowd adjectivespacked, dense, massive, huge, enormous
- hungerhunger, hungry, starving, starvation, famished
- desireyearn, yearning, crave, craving, lust
eagerreluctant
Unwilling to act
unwilling · loath · averse · disinclined · unenthusiastic
eagerapathetic
Without feeling or concern
indifferent · uninterested · disinterested · unconcerned · detached
eagerreluctant
Unwilling to act
unwilling · listless · languid · spiritless · languorous
- eager beaverOverly enthusiastic person
- eager to please
- eager student
eagerness, eagerly, eager beaver, overeager, overeagerness, overeagerly