Aspire vs Eager - What's the difference?
aspire | eager |
To hope or dream; especially to hope or work towards a profession or occupation (followed by to as a preposition or infinitive particle ).
* Alexander Pope
(obsolete) To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to.
* Shakespeare
To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.
* Waller
(obsolete) Sharp; sour; acid.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
(rfc-sense) Excited by desire in the pursuit of any object; ardent to pursue, perform, or obtain; keenly desirous; hotly longing; earnest; zealous; impetuous; vehement.
* Keble
* Hawthorne
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.
* John Locke
(comptheory) Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.
As a verb aspire
is to hope or dream; especially to hope or work towards a profession or occupation (followed by to as a preposition or infinitive particle).As an adjective eager is
sharp; sour; acid.As a noun eager is
alternative form of lang=en (tidal bore).aspire
English
Verb
- He aspires to become a successful doctor.
- Aspiring to be angels, men rebel.
- That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds.
- My own breath still foments the fire, / Which flames as high as fancy can aspire .
Anagrams
* * * * ----eager
English
(Webster 1913)Etymology 1
From (etyl) eger, from (etyl) egre (French aigre), from (etyl) ; see acid, acerb, etc. Compare vinegar, alegar.Adjective
(er)- like eager droppings into milk
- eager words
- a nipping and an eager air
- When to her eager lips is brought / Her infant's thrilling kiss.
- a crowd of eager and curious schoolboys
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- Gold will be sometimes so eager , as artists call it, that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself.
- an eager algorithm