interested as an adjective: - 1
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interested
adjective
1 interested
Having or showing interest; especially curiosity or fascination or concern.
Roget 943:
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
etc.
819.
unspiritual,
earthly,
earthly-minded;
mundane;
worldly,
worldly-minded;
worldly-wise;
timeserving†.
interested;
alieni appetens sui profusus [Lat.].
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2 interested
Involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in:
— The interested parties met to discuss the business.
synonym: concerned.
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 ... show more.
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