'Interested' definitions:
Definition of 'interested'
From: WordNet
adjective
Having or showing interest; especially curiosity or fascination or concern; "an interested audience"; "interested in sports"; "was interested to hear about her family"; "interested in knowing who was on the telephone"; "interested spectators" [ant: uninterested]
adjective
Involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in; "a memorandum to those concerned"; "an enterprise in which three men are concerned"; "factors concerned in the rise and fall of epidemics"; "the interested parties met to discuss the business" [syn: concerned, interested]
Definition of 'Interested'
From: GCIDE
- Interest \In"ter*est\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Interested; p. pr. & vb. n. Interesting.] [From interess'd, p. p. of the older form interess, fr. F. int['e]resser, L. interesse. See Interest, n.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest him; to interest one in charitable work. [1913 Webster]
- To love our native country . . . to be interested in its concerns is natural to all men. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- A goddess who used to interest herself in marriages. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite; -- often used impersonally. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Or rather, gracious sir, Create me to this glory, since my cause Doth interest this fair quarrel. --Ford. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To cause or permit to share. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The mystical communion of all faithful men is such as maketh every one to be interested in those precious blessings which any one of them receiveth at God's hands. --Hooker.
- Syn: To concern; excite; attract; entertain; engage; occupy; hold. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Interested'
From: GCIDE
- Interested \In"ter*est*ed\ ([i^]n"t[~e]r*[e^]st*[e^]d), a. [See Interest, v. t.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness; an interested party. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'interested'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a party to,
- absorbed,
- affected,
- agape,
- agog,
- all agog,
- antiblack,
- attracted,
- biased,
- burning with curiosity,
- cathectic,
- chauvinistic,
- colored,
- concerned,
- consumed with curiosity,
- curious,
- denominational,
- doctrinaire,
- dogmatic,
- drawn to,
- engaged,
- engrossed,
- enthusiastic,
- excited,
- factional,
- fascinated,
- ghoulish,
- gossipy,
- implicated,
- included,
- influenced,
- inquiring,
- inquisitive,
- involved,
- involved in,
- itchy,
- jaundiced,
- keen on,
- know-nothing,
- morbid,
- morbidly curious,
- nonobjective,
- one-sided,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- opinionated,
- overcurious,
- partial,
- partisan,
- party,
- passionate,
- piqued,
- predisposed,
- prejudiced,
- prejudicial,
- prepossessed,
- prurient,
- quizzical,
- racist,
- scopophiliac,
- sectarian,
- sectary,
- sectional,
- sexist,
- supercurious,
- superpatriotic,
- swayed,
- tantalized,
- tickled,
- titillated,
- turned-on,
- twisted,
- ultranationalist,
- undetached,
- undispassionate,
- unneutral,
- voyeuristic,
- warped,
- xenophobic
Words containing 'Interested'
- Interest,
- Interesting,
- Interestingly,
- interests,
- By-interest,
- Compound interest,
- Interest policy,
- Life interest,
- Marine interest,
- Simple interest,
- To draw interest,
- Vested interest,
- community of interests,
- conflict of interest,
- controlling interest,
- human interest,
- insurable interest,
- interest expense,
- interest group,
- interest rate,
- pooling of interest,
- rate of interest,
- security interest,
- special interest,
- special interests,
- terminable interest,
- undivided interest,
- Self-interest,
- Self-interested,
- high-interest,
- interest-bearing,
- low-interest,
- prime interest rate,
- earnings before interest taxes depreciation and amortization