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interested
CIDE DICTIONARY
- Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener. [1913 Webster]
- Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness; an interested party. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
interested
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, xenophobicROGET THESAURUS
interested
Selfishness
N selfishness, self-love, self-indulgence, self-worship, self-interest, egotism, egoism, amour propre, nepotism, worldliness, world wisdom, illiberality, meanness, time-pleaser, time-server, tuft- hunter, fortune-hunter, jobber, worldling, egotist, egoist, monopolist, nepotist, dog in the manger, charity that begins at home, canis in praesepi, foes to nobleness, temporizer, trimmer, 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, unspiritual, earthly, earthly-minded, mundane, worldly, worldly- minded, worldly-wise, timeserving, interested, alieni appetens sui profusus, ungenerously, to gain some private ends, from interested motives, apres nous le deluge.For further exploring for "interested" in Webster Dictionary Online