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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective interested has 2 senses
- interested(a = adj.all) Array - 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" Derived form noun interestedness1
- interested(s = adj.all) concerned - 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"
Antonym: uninterested
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- Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener. [1913 Webster]
- 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]
THESAURUS
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, xenophobicROGET THESAURUS
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Selfishness
N selfishness, self-love, self-indulgence, self-worship, self-interest, egotism, egoism, amour propre, nepotism, worldliness, world wisdom, illiberality, meanness, time-pleaser, time-server, tuft- hunter, fortune-hunter, jobber, worldling, egotist, egoist, monopolist, nepotist, dog in the manger, charity that begins at home, canis in praesepi, foes to nobleness, temporizer, trimmer, selfish, self-seeking, self-indulgent, self-interested, self- centered, wrapped up in self, wrapt up in self, centered in self, egotistic, egotistical, egoistical, illiberal, mean, ungenerous, narrow-minded, mercenary, venal, covetous, unspiritual, earthly, earthly-minded, mundane, worldly, worldly- minded, worldly-wise, timeserving, interested, alieni appetens sui profusus, ungenerously, to gain some private ends, from interested motives, apres nous le deluge.
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