keenly

Definitions

In a sharp, intense, or highly sensitive manner.

With great enthusiasm, eagerness, or intellectual sharpness.

Examples

She felt the loss of her mentor keenly, as he had guided her career for over a decade.

The students listened keenly to the guest speaker, eager to learn about the future of technology.

Synonyms

intensely sharply acutely eagerly fervently avidly perceptively

Antonyms

indifferently vaguely apathetically dullly unenthusiastically listlessly dimly