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'
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 ]