Synonyms of the word

keen

• adj. Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness…
• adj. Fierce, intense, vehement.
• adj. Having a fine edge or point; sharp.
• adj. Acute of mind, having or expressing mental acuteness; penetrating, sharp.
• adj. Acrimonious, bitter, piercing.
• adj. Of cold, wind, etc.: cutting, penetrating, piercing, sharp.
• adj. (Britain) Extremely low as to be competitive.
• adj. (US, informal, dated) Marvelous.
• adj. (obsolete) Brave, courageous; audacious, bold.
• v. (transitive, rare) To make cold, to sharpen.
• n. A prolonged wail for a deceased person.
• v. (intransitive) To utter a keen.
• v. (transitive) To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.
• v. (transitive) To mourn.

acute

• adj. Urgent.
• adj. Sensitive.
• adj. Short, quick, brief.
• adj. (geometry) Of an angle, less than 90 degrees.
• adj. (geometry) Of a triangle, having all three interior angles measuring less than 90 degrees.
• adj. (botany) With the sides meeting directly to form an acute angle (at a apex or base).
• adj. (medicine) Of an abnormal condition of recent or sudden onset, in contrast to delayed onset; this sense…
• adj. (medicine) Of a short-lived condition, in contrast to a chronic condition; this sense also does not imply…
• adj. (orthography, after a letter) Having an acute accent.
• adj. High or shrill.
• n. (orthography) An acute accent.
• n. A person who has the acute form of a disorder, such as schizophrenia.
• v. (phonetics) To give an acute sound to.

bang-up

• adj. Especially good; wonderful; superb.

bully

• n. A person who is cruel to others, especially those who are weaker or have less power.
• n. A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an…
• n. A hired thug.
• n. A prostitute’s minder; a pimp.
• n. (uncountable) Bully beef.
• n. (obsolete) A brisk, dashing fellow.
• n. The small scrum in the Eton College field game.
• n. A small freshwater fish.
• n. (obsolete or dialectal, Ireland and Northern England) An (eldest) brother; a fellow workman; comrade.
• n. (dialectal) A companion; mate. (male or female).
• n. (obsolete) darling, sweetheart. (male or female).
• v. (transitive) To intimidate (someone) as a bully.
• v. (transitive) To act aggressively towards.
• adj. (US, slang) Very good; excellent.
• adj. (slang) Jovial and blustering; dashing.
• interj. (often followed by for) Well done!

corking

• v. present participle of cork.
• adj. (informal) splendid, enjoyable, bang-up.
• n. The formation of white, cork-like striations on a jalapeño pepper.

coronach

• n. (historical, Scotland, Ireland) dirge, lamentation.

cracking

• n. (chemistry) The thermal decomposition of a substance, especially that of crude petroleum in order to produce…
• n. The formation of cracks on a surface.
• n. The production of a crack sound.
• adj. (colloquial) Great.
• adj. (colloquial) Enjoyable.
• adv. (Britain) Very, usually associated with praise.
• v. present participle of crack.

cutting

• v. present participle of cut.
• n. (countable, uncountable) The action of the verb to cut.
• n. (countable) A section removed from the larger whole.
• n. (countable) A newspaper clipping.
• n. (countable) A leaf, stem, branch, or root removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant.
• n. (countable) An abridged selection of written work, often intended for performance.
• n. (uncountable) The editing of film or other recordings.
• n. (uncountable) Self-harm; the act of cutting one's own skin.
• n. (machining) The process of bringing metals to a desired shape by chipping away the unwanted material.
• n. (countable) A narrow passage, dug for a road, railway or canal to go through.
• adj. (not comparable) That is used for cutting.
• adj. Of remarks, criticism, etc., potentially hurtful.

dandy

• adj. Like a dandy, foppish.
• adj. Very good; better than expected but not as good as could be.
• adj. Excellent; first-rate.
• n. A man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance.
• n. (Britain, nautical) A yawl, or a small after-sail on a yawl.
• n. A dandy roller.

dirge

• n. A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.

discriminating

• adj. Able to perceive fine distinctions between similar things; perceptive.
• adj. Having a discerning judgment or taste.
• v. present participle of discriminate.

exquisite

• adj. Especially fine or pleasing; exceptional.
• adj. (obsolete) Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact.
• adj. Recherché; far-fetched; abstruse.
• adj. Of special beauty or rare excellence.
• adj. Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.
• adj. Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.
• n. (rare) Fop, dandy.

good

• adj. (of people).
• adj. (of capabilities).
• adj. (of properties and qualities).
• adj. (colloquial) With "and", extremely.
• adj. Holy (especially when capitalized).
• adj. (of quantities).
• interj. That is good; an elliptical exclamation of satisfaction or commendation.
• adv. (nonstandard) Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.
• n. (uncountable) The forces or behaviors that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and…
• n. (countable) A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
• n. (uncountable) The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes…
• n. (countable, usually in the plural) An item of merchandise.
• v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To make good; turn to good; improve.
• v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To make improvements or repairs.
• v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To benefit; gain.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
• v. (reflexive, now chiefly dialectal) To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.

great

• adj. Very big, large scale.
• adj. Very good.
• adj. Important.
• adj. Title referring to an important leader.
• adj. Superior; admirable; commanding; applied to thoughts, actions, and feelings.
• adj. Endowed with extraordinary powers; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; strong; powerful;…
• adj. (obsolete) Pregnant; large with young.
• adj. More than ordinary in degree; very considerable.
• adj. [qualifying nouns of family relationship] Involving more generations than the word qualified implies.…
• adj. (obsolete, except with 'friend' and similar words such as 'mate','buddy') Intimate; familiar.
• interj. Expression of gladness and content about something.
• interj. sarcastic inversion thereof.
• n. A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim.
• n. (music) The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division.
• adv. very well (in a very satisfactory manner).

groovy

• adj. Of, pertaining to, or having grooves.
• adj. (dated) Set in one's ways.
• adj. (dated, slang) Cool, neat, interesting, fashionable.
• n. (dated, slang) A trendy and fashionable person.

incisive

• adj. Quickly proceeding to judgment and forceful in expression; decisive; forthright.
• adj. Intelligently analytical and concise.
• adj. Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; sharp; acute; sarcastic;…
• adj. (anatomy) Of or relating to the incisors.

intense

• adj. Strained; tightly drawn.
• adj. Strict, very close or earnest.
• adj. Extreme in degree; excessive.
• adj. Extreme in size or strength.
• adj. Stressful and tiring.
• adj. Very severe.

knifelike

• adj. Resembling a knife or its effects.

lament

• n. An expression of grief, suffering, or sadness.
• n. A song expressing grief.
• v. (intransitive) To express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.
• v. (transitive) To feel great sorrow or regret; to bewail.

lancinate

• v. To pierce or stab (as with a lance), to lance.

lancinating

• v. present participle of lancinate.
• adj. (especially of pain) Sharp, stabbing or piercing.

neat

• n. (archaic) A bull or cow.
• n. (archaic) Cattle collectively.
• adj. Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.
• adj. Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below.
• adj. (chemistry) Conditions with a liquid reagent or gas performed with no standard solvent or cosolvent.
• adj. (archaic) With all deductions or allowances made; net.
• adj. Having a simple elegance or style; clean, trim, tidy, tasteful.
• adj. Well-executed or delivered; clever, skillful, precise.
• adj. (colloquial) Good, excellent, desirable.
• n. (informal) An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear…

nifty

• adj. (colloquial) Good, smart; a general term for anything that is good, useful or beneficial.

peachy

• adj. Resembling a peach, peach-like.
• adj. (slang) Very good, excellent.

penetrating

• adj. able to pierce or penetrate.
• adj. demonstrating acute or keen understanding.
• v. present participle of penetrate.

penetrative

• adj. Of, pertaining to, or involving penetration.
• adj. Having the ability to penetrate.
• adj. Displaying insight or discrimination; acute.

perceptive

• adj. having or showing keenness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition.

piercing

• v. present participle of pierce.
• n. (uncountable) The action of the verb to pierce.
• n. A hole made in the body so that jewellery/jewelry can be worn through it.
• n. The jewelry itself.
• adj. Anything or anyone that pierces.

requiem

• n. A mass (especially Catholic) to honor and remember a dead person.
• n. A musical composition for such a mass.
• n. A piece of music composed to honor a dead person.
• n. A large or dangerous shark, specifically, (zoology) a member of the family Carcharhinidae.

sharp

• adj. Able to cut easily.
• adj. (colloquial) Intelligent.
• adj. Terminating in a point or edge; not obtuse or rounded.
• adj. (music) Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
• adj. (music) Higher in pitch than required.
• adj. Having an intense, acrid flavour.
• adj. Sudden and intense.
• adj. (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest.
• adj. (colloquial) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd.
• adj. Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
• adj. Offensive, critical, or acrimonious.
• adj. (colloquial) Stylish or attractive.
• adj. Observant; alert; acute.
• adj. Forming a small angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
• adj. Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
• adj. (mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
• adj. (chess) Tactical; risky.
• adj. Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
• adj. Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
• adj. (obsolete) Fierce; ardent; fiery; violent; impetuous.
• adj. Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
• adj. (phonetics, dated) Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone; aspirated; unvoiced.
• adv. To a point or edge; piercingly; eagerly; sharply.
• adv. (not comparable) Exactly.
• adv. (music) In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable.
• n. (music) The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff…
• n. (music) A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed…
• n. (music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
• n. (music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
• n. (usually in the plural) Something that is sharp.
• n. A sharp tool or weapon.
• n. (medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
• n. (medicine, dated) A scalpel or other edged instrument used in surgery.
• n. A dishonest person; a cheater.
• n. Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
• n. A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
• n. (in the plural) middlings.
• n. (slang, dated) An expert.
• n. A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
• v. (music) To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.
• v. To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.

slap-up

• adj. (informal) Excellent, first-class.

smashing

• adj. Serving to smash (something).
• adj. (originally US, now Britain) Wonderful, very good or impressive.
• n. Gerund: The action of the verb to smash.
• v. present participle of smash.

stabbing

• adj. (of pain) sharp, intense.
• n. An incident in which a person is stabbed.
• v. present participle of stab.

swell

• v. (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
• v. (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
• v. (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
• v. (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
• v. (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
• v. To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
• v. To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
• v. To protuberate; to bulge out.
• n. The act of swelling.
• n. Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
• n. A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
• n. (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
• n. (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
• n. (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
• n. A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
• n. (informal, dated) A person who is dressed in a fancy or elegant manner.
• n. (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
• adj. (Canada, US, informal, slang) Excellent.

threnody

• n. A song or poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy.