interested
Americanadjective
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having an interest in something; concerned.
Interested members will meet at noon.
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having the attention or curiosity engaged.
an interested spectator.
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characterized by a feeling of interest.
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influenced by personal or selfish motives.
an interested witness.
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participating; having an interest or share; having money involved.
adjective
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showing or having interest
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(usually prenominal) personally involved or implicated
the interested parties met to discuss the business
Other Word Forms
- interestedly adverb
- interestedness noun
- overinterested adjective
- overinterestedly adverb
- overinterestedness noun
- quasi-interested adjective
- quasi-interestedly adverb
- well-interested adjective
Etymology
Origin of interested
First recorded in 1655–65; interest ( def. ) + -ed 2 ( def. ) or -ed 3 ( def. )
Example Sentences
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But analysts Tom White and Wyatt Swanson say it’s too early to say how big the monetization opportunity is for Trade Desk, as it’s unclear which Trade Desk services OpenAI is interested in.
That is baseball in Japan: teams owned by companies that can be more interested in their core business of financial services or transportation or media or whatever than in their team.
From Los Angeles Times
Number one is to create systems that actually listen to people, not just saying, well, we’re interested in community input, but then we’re not going to give it any actual power.
From Salon
Some of the areas Daly expects customers to be interested in are policy research, trend analysis and corporate research.
Several of Jafri’s clients are interested in the Gold Card, but he has advised them against applying.
From Barron's
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