- 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
- 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)
- 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
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun interest2, noun interest1
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- concern, interest, occupy, worry - be on the mind of; "I worry about the second Germanic consonant"
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun interest1
The bad news will interest him
- 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
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun interest2
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something