eagerly

Adverb

Meaning

In an eager manner.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

heartily thirstily with a will fain lief hard willing actively readily keen enthusiastic intensely dynamically willingly passionately
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Antonyms

guiltily carefully safely badly negatively reluctantly
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Phrases with the word

eagerly anticipated eagerly awaited accept eagerly eagerly accepting eagerly desired eagerly embracing

Anagrams

Grealey ryelage

Examples

The purpose of life...is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. Eleanor Roosevelt

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went. Omar Khayyám

Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money one has earned, those being the two data most eagerly sought by readers; all the rest is legitimate to reveal. Robert Silverberg

A tender bamboo cannot be eagerly desired for building. Zambian Proverb

Jealousy is a pain which eagerly seeks what causes pain. German Proverb

New songs are eagerly sung. German Proverb

Close letter words and terms

eager to help eager to learn eager to please eagerly accepting eagerly anticipated eagerly anticipating