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INTERESTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interested mean? 

INTERESTED (adjective)
  The adjective INTERESTED has 2 senses:

1. having or showing interest; especially curiosity or fascination or concernplay

2. involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share inplay

  Familiarity information: INTERESTED used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


INTERESTED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or showing interest; especially curiosity or fascination or concern

Context example:

interested spectators

Antonym:

uninterested (not having or showing interest)

Derivation:

interestedness (the state of being interested)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in

Synonyms:

concerned; interested

Context example:

the interested parties met to discuss the business

Similar:

involved (connected by participation or association or use)


 Context examples 


P.S. On reading over my letter, it strikes me as rather Bhaery, but I am always interested in odd people, and I really had nothing else to write about.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She was interested, that much was sure.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient seem less interested in the activities and plans of others?

(NPI - Less Interested in the Activities and Plans of Others, NCI Thesaurus)

I'm not asking about mere suspiciousness; I am interested if the patient is convinced that these things are happening to him/her.

(NPI - Have Beliefs That You Know are Not True, NCI Thesaurus)

I was moved by no interested or selfish motive, nor was I moved by fear of him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This he received without perturbation, though he obeyed it by keeping his distance; but he remained interested in the other sounds—faint, muffled sobbings and slubberings.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I should doubt his knowing anything at all about Mr. Rochester; it is not in Mr. Rochester he is interested.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He seemed more interested than annoyed at my outbreak.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You will find him an interested listener and no fool.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Astronomers are interested in better understanding what role these Wolf-Rayet stars play in the cosmic neighborhood at the Milky Way's center.

(Scientists Take Viewers to the Center of the Milky Way, NASA)



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