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interested::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | concerned |
the interested parties met to discuss the business.
interested:: | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Derivation | interestedness |
an interested audience.
interested in sports.
was interested to hear about her family.
interested in knowing who was on the telephone.
interested spectators.
Examples of interested
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I've always been interested in the tension created by that kind of relationship.
From the dailyherald.com
You can also search by company name if you're interested in meeting someone new.
From the abcnews.go.com
Is it boring because it's become uncool in the classroom to be interested in it?
From the abcnews.go.com
Teachers who are interested in improving their students'work give them feedback.
From the stltoday.com
The city hopes it can find another developer interested in reviving the project.
From the thenewstribune.com
Interesting that they are more interested in capacity issues than riders safety.
From the orlandosentinel.com
The Patriots seem interested, as they continue their quest for an edge presence.
From the bostonherald.com
I don't know about you, but I was interested to see the Xavier-Duke game on CBS.
From the stltoday.com
What Beijing is interested in, analysts say, is measured growth in yuan trading.
From the online.wsj.com
- 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"
- 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"
- (interesting) arousing or holding the attention
- Attention is the cognitive process of selectively concentrating on one aspect of the environment while ignoring other things. Attention has also been referred to as the allocation of processing resources.
- (Interesting (Young Ones episode)) "Interesting" was the fifth episode of British sitcom The Young Ones. It was written by Ben Elton, Rik Mayall and Lise Mayer, and directed by Paul Jackson. It was first broadcast on BBC2 on 7 December 1982.
- Having or showing interest; Motivated by considerations of self-interest; self-serving; Owning a share of a company
- (interesting) and fascinating (adjective)
- (INTERESTING) Guidebook speak for puzzling, often extremely so. The reverse applies for spectators. Sometimes (sloppily) used interchangeably with exciting, so beware. [Tony Buckley]
- (Interesting (in the Chinese sense)) As in the Chinese curse 'may you live in interesting times'. Used if you want to describe a war or a genocide as intellectually 'interesting', but to acknowledge that using the word alone would sound insensitive.
