Adjective interested has 2 senses
  1. interested - 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"
    Antonyms:
    uninterested, apathetic, indifferent, blase, bored, dismissive, inattentive, dulled, benumbed
  2. concerned, interested - 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"
    Antonym: uninvolved (indirect, via involved)
,Verb interest has 3 senses
  1. interest - excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of
    --1 is one way to
    arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke
    Antonyms: bore, tire
    Derived forms: noun interest2, noun interest1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
  2. concern, interest, occupy, worry - be on the mind of; "I worry about the second Germanic consonant"
    Derived form: noun interest1
    Sample sentence:
    The bad news will interest him
  3. matter to, interest - be of importance or consequence; "This matters to me!"
    --3 is one way to refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch, touch on
    Derived form: noun interest2
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
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