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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Interest \In"ter*est\, verb (used with an object) [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}, noun]
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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Interested \In"ter*est*ed\ ([i^]n"t[~e]r*[e^]st*[e^]d), adjective [See {Interest}, verb (used with an object)]
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; an interested party.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
interested
adjective
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
79 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, xenophobic
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