eager

Other forms of eager

plural

eagers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about eager

What does eager mean?

eager means "a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in eager?

eager has 2 syllables: ea-ger. The stress falls on "ea". In IPA it is /ˈiɡɚ/.

What is another word for eager?

Close synonyms include tidal bore, bore, eagre, aegir. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of eager?

The recorded antonyms are uneager.

Is eager a common word?

eager is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with eager?

1 word rhymes with eager. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.