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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Interesting \In"ter*est*ing\, a. Engaging the attention; exciting, or adapted to excite, interest, curiosity, or emotion; as an interesting story; interesting news --Cowper. 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]: interesting adj : arousing or holding the attention [ant: {uninteresting}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: interesting adj In hacker parlance, this word has strong connotations of `annoying', or `difficult', or both Hackers relish a challenge, and enjoy wringing all the irony possible out of the ancient Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times". Oppose {trivial}, {uninteresting}. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: interesting In hacker parlance, this word has strong connotations of "annoying", or "difficult", or both Hackers relish a challenge, and enjoy wringing all the irony possible out of the ancient Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times". [{Jargon File}]
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