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Keen Pronunciation

Pronounce Keen as K EH EH N.

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    Keen phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'keen'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of keen: /kɛɛn/
    • Modern IPA representation of keen: /kɛɛn/

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    List of meaning for keen

    strong or highly developed

    keen(adj)

    a funeral lament sung with loud wailing

    acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp(adj)

    having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

    "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations"

    exquisite, keen(adj)

    intense or sharp

    "suffered exquisite pain"; "felt exquisite pleasure"

    bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad(p), peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing(adj)

    very good

    "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"

    cutting, keen, knifelike, piercing, stabbing, lancinate, lancinating(adj)

    painful as if caused by a sharp instrument

    "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "lancinating pain"

    keen(verb)

    having a sharp cutting edge or point

    "a keen blade"

    lament, keen(verb)

    express grief verbally

    "we lamented the death of the child"

    able to sense slight impressions or differences

    pilots with especially keen eyesight

    causing intense discomfort to one's skin

    the keen wind gave me chapped lips

    having an edge thin enough to cut or pierce something

    lanced the boil with a keen scalpel

    having or showing quickness of mind

    readers who were keen enough to realize that the writer was being satirical

    of the very best kind

    that new digital camera sure is keen

    showing urgent desire or interest

    a keen hunger for fame and fortune in the fashion industry

    extreme in degree, power, or effect

    movies gave him keen enjoyment like nothing else

    a crying out in grief

    the loud keens of the widows were heard throughout the war-ravaged city

    to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely

    victims of the disaster have been keening for weeks about the slowness of governmental aid

    to make a long loud mournful sound

    mourners keening for the victims of the bombing

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    keen in sentence

    1. The scientist has a keen intellect and can easily solve most puzzles.

    2. His keen reflexes allowed the black belt to respond before his attacker could even land the first punch.

    3. The keen sentry noticed the troops trying to sneak into the city.

    4. Equipped with a keen sense of sensibility, my loving grandfather was always receptive to the needs of others.

    5. Each dwarf took a keen liking to Snow White.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term keen

    I stress that the competition to design the flag is open to everyone, but we are especially keen to encourage our young people to give full rein to their imaginations, because this flag is ultimately for them and future generations of Fijians.

    – Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama

    Maybe Koch can take it into its own system, but refiners there are not too keen on the grade. Basrah Heavy is much better.

    – Adi Imsirovic

    I am keen on the success of any president because his success is our success... but the attitude I'm seeing of using a security grip or reproducing the police state will not be productive, when political parties are absent, NGOs are absent, local media is being crushed, international media too... is that a sign of a healthy environment in which a country can flourish?

    – Hisham Genena

    While investors were keeping a keen eye on the FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting, which concluded on Wednesday on a more hawkish note than some anticipated, taxable-fixed income mutual funds took in small amounts of net new money - $348 million-plus, with ETF investors ... withdrawing $700 million, interestingly, though, both investors types were net purchasers of municipal bond funds, injecting $877 million into conventional open-end funds and $314 million for ETFs, respectively.

    – Tom Roseen

    Were not the first country to find itself in this situation with China and the Chinese practice seems to be to avoid in the early stages of these kinds of standoffs, to avoid higher level meanings, i have sought repeatedly a meeting with the Wang Yi, the foreign minister, my counterpart. Thus far that meeting hasnt happened. But if Chinese officials are listening to us today, let me repeat that I would be very, very keen to meet with Minister Wang Yi or to speak with him over the phone at the earliest opportunity.

    – Chrystia Freeland

    They are preparing for the conversations with EPA, we obviously have a keen interest in getting their legal issues solved so they can go back to selling cars.

    – Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam

    They had a finance deal lined up which was very satisfactory before (the vote), the terms have gotten harder now, they are not particularly keen on them. I don't think they would go ahead on that basis.

    – Melanie Curtis

    A lot of customers were quite keen to return devices or switch brands after learning the device in their pocket had dropped in value.

    – Ben Stanton

    Cuba is facing a very interesting period and the European Union is keen to see how we can take the relationship forward with strong momentum, the EU has been closely following the developments in Cuba and its relations with key international players, which create new dynamics in the region and in Cuba itself, and provide new opportunities for all.

    – Federica Mogherini

    To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.

    – W. H. Auden

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