If you're interested in something, you like it and want to know more. If you're snoring through a movie, you're probably not that interested in it.
Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited;
Adjective
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"
Adjective S.
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"
imp. & p. p.
of Interest
v. t.
Having the attention engaged; having emotion or
passion excited; as, an interested listener.
v. t.
Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in
consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested
witness.
Interested
Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited;
Usage Examples
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
"If you are interested enough in the climate crisis to read this post, you probably know that 2 degrees Centigrade of warming (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) is the widely acknowledged threshold for ""dangerous"" climate change."
Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.
A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.
90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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Other Usage ExamplesA lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.
And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.
American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success they are interested in your money.
And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.
After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.
A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things.
A simple compliment goes a really long way - for a guy to just come over and say, 'You have great hair' or 'I really like your dress,' and then just smile and walk away. That's a great move, because he's sort of putting himself out there by doing that, but it won't lead to any embarrassment if the girl isn't interested.
A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that.