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# keenly

«keenly» in Mova's school dictionary: **eagerly, with a lot of interest** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (keenly)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Keenly means eagerly, with a lot of interest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keenly/#m1)

2) Keenly means very strongly or deeply, as in «keenly felt». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keenly/#m2)

3) Keenly means sharply and carefully, as in «watched keenly». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keenly/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Stories and reports: «keenly awaited», «keenly interested», «a keenly fought match». It tells the reader that feelings or attention are strong.

### examples

- The children waited keenly for the results. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keenly/#x1)
- She keenly felt the loss of her dog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keenly/#x2)
- The owl watched the field keenly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keenly/#x3)
- It was a keenly fought football final. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keenly/#x4)
- He is keenly interested in dinosaurs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keenly/#x5)
- The new book was keenly awaited. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keenly/#x6)
- Yet, in spite of this numbness of feeling, he suffered keenly at the thought of passing under the windows of his good little Fairy’s house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keenly/#x7)

### note

From «keen» (eager, sharp). «Keenly» goes before or after the verb.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «keenly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/keenly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.