interested

4 definitions found

interested - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.]
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     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.
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              To love our native country . . . to be interested in
              its concerns is natural to all men.   --Dryden.
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              A goddess who used to interest herself in marriages.
                                                    --Addison.
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     2. To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern;
        to excite; -- often used impersonally. [Obs.]
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              Or rather, gracious sir,
              Create me to this glory, since my cause
              Doth interest this fair quarrel.      --Ford.
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     3. To cause or permit to share. [Obs.]
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              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.
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  Interested \In"ter*est*ed\ ([i^]n"t[~e]r*[e^]st*[e^]d), a. [See
     Interest, v. t.]
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     1. Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion
        excited; as, an interested listener.
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     2. Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in
        consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an
        interested witness; an interested party.
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interested - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  interested
      adj 1: 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]
      2: 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]

interested - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  79 Moby Thesaurus words for "interested":
     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