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interested, ppl. a.|ˈɪntərɪstɪd|
[f. interest v. + -ed1.]
1. Concerned, affected; having an interest, concern, or share in something.
1828Webster s.v., One interested in the funds. An interested witness. a1834J. Brooks in D. A. Wells Burden & Strength (1864) 34 Substitute skilful, intelligent, interested free labor for unskilled, ignorant, and uninterested slave labor. 1844Williams Real Prop. (1877) 207 The evidence of interested persons is now received, and its value estimated according to its worth. 1887C. A. Moloney Forestry W. Afr. vi. 126 With an issue to the interested of having..to pay freight only on good marketable stuff.
2. Influenced by considerations of personal advantage; moved by self-interest; self-seeking, self-interested. (The opposite of disinterested.)
1705Stanhope Paraphr. I. 34 Dissembled or interested Homage of Rulers or Rabbies. 1771Mackenzie Man Feel. lv. (1803) 91 The world is, in general, selfish, interested, and unthinking. 1855Thackeray Newcomes II. 213 The wretched consequences of interested marriages. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxi. IV. 555 He was generally thought interested and grasping.
3. Characterized by a feeling of concern, sympathy, or curiosity.
1665Pepys Corr. 4 Sept., No day hath passed..without my most interested wishes for your health. 1729Butler Serm. Wks. 1874 II. Pref. 23 The very idea of an interested pursuit necessarily presupposes particular passions or appetites. 1753Smollett Ct. Fathom (1784) 18/1 He thought she would..have betrayed some interested symptom; that her face would have undergone some favourable suffusion. 1806T. S. Surr Winter in Lond. (ed. 3) III. 35 ‘Is he alive?’ said Belloni with interested emotion. Mod. They found in me an interested auditor. |
