English Explanatory Dictionary

interest

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed.
  2. Any excess over and above an exact equivalent
  3. A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.
  4. Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
  5. An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.
  6. Something which, or someone whom, one is interested in.
  7. Condition or quality of exciting concern or being of importance.
  8. Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
  9. The persons and companies interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.
  10. A genre of factual short films, generally more amusing than informative, especially those not covered by a more specific genre label.
verb
  1. To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.
  2. To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.
  3. To cause or permit to share.

Pronunciation

/ˈɪn.tɹɛst/ /ˈɪn.t(ə.)ɹɪst/ /ˈɪn.tɚ.ɛst/ /ˈɪn.tɚ.əst/ /ˈɪn.tɹəst/ /ˈɪn.tɚst/ En-us-interest.ogg /ˈɪn.t(ə.)ɹest/ /ɪɳʈ(ɛ)ˈrɛsʈ/

Word forms

interest interests enterest interess intherest interesting interested

Etymology

From Middle English interest, from Old French interesse and interest (French intérêt), from Medieval Latin interesse, from Latin interesse.

Synonyms

cost of money oker

Antonyms

bore disinterest

Derived words

conflict of interest interest group adverse interest adverse interest rule by-interest community interest company counterinterest deposit interest retention tax executory interest expression of interest fee simple subject to executory interest hyperinterest interest-bearing interest-free interest in land interest inventory interestless interest rate interest rate guarantee interest rate swap interest-sensitive in the interest of justice in the interest of time legitimate interest national interest negative interest noninterest of interest overinterest person of interest point of interest possessory interest rate of interest riding interest rooting interest self-interest shifting executory interest special interest group springing executory interest subinterest supercompound interest super-compound interest time-preference theory of interest uninterest vest in interest deferred interest bond earnings before interest and taxes indication of interest insurable interest interest cover interest expense pooling of interest interestable interested interesting reinterest

Translations

Albanian: interesim Southern Altai: јилбӱ Arabic: اِهْتِمَام Armenian: հետաքրքրություն Azerbaijani: maraq Belarusian: ціка́васць Belarusian: інтарэ́с Bulgarian: интере́с Catalan: interès Chinese Cantonese: 興趣 /兴趣 Chinese Mandarin: 興趣 /兴趣 Czech: zájem Danish: interesse Dutch: interesse Esperanto: intereso Estonian: huvi Finnish: kiinnostus Finnish: mielenkiinto French: intérêt German: Interesse Greek: ενδιαφέρον Hebrew: עניין \ עִנְיָן Hindi: रुचि Hungarian: érdeklődés Icelandic: áhugi Indonesian: minat Indonesian: ketertarikan Interlingua: interesse Irish: spéis Irish: suim Italian: interesse Japanese: 興味 Japanese: 関心 Kazakh: қызығу Korean: 흥미 Korean: 관심 Northern Kurdish: mereq Northern Kurdish: balkêşî Northern Kurdish: entres Kyrgyz: кызыгуу Latvian: interese Lithuanian: interesas Lithuanian: domėjimasis Lithuanian: susidomėjimas Macedonian: интерес Malay: minat Malayalam: താല്പര്യം Manx: foayr Māori: aronga Marathi: स्वारस्य
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