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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Interested \In"ter*est*ed\, a. [See {Interest}, v. t.] 1. Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as an interested listener. 2. Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as an interested witness. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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.] 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 To love our native country . . . to be interested in its concerns is natural to all men. --Dryden. A goddess who used to interest herself in marriages. --Addison. 2. To be concerned with or engaged in to affect; to concern; to excite; -- often used impersonally. [Obs.] Or rather, gracious sir, Create me to this glory, since my cause Doth interest this fair quarrel. --Ford. 3. To cause or permit to share. [Obs.] 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 From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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}]
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