interest

Meaning of interest

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.
    Our bank offers borrowers an annual interest of 5%.
  2. Any excess over and above an exact equivalent
  3. A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.
    He has a lot of interest in vintage cars.
  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.
    I have business interests in South Africa.
  6. Something or someone one is interested in.
    Lexicography is one of my interests.
  7. Condition or quality of exciting concern or being of importance
  8. Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
  9. (usually in the plural) The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.
    the iron interest;  the cotton interest
verb
  1. To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.
    Action films don't really interest me.
  2. To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.
  3. To cause or permit to share.

Information about interest

  • The plural form of interest is: interests.
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Hyphenation of interest

in-ter-est

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
  • interest is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

interest synonyms

Meaning involvement:

involvement

Meaning interestingness:

interestingness

Meaning sake:

sake

Meaning pastime:

pastime, pursuit

Meaning stake:

stake

Meaning concern:

concern, occupy, worry

Meaning :

oker

interest antonyms

Meaning :

bore, disinterest

Translation of interest

Anagrams of interest

inertest, insetter, interset, sternite, Tiersten, trientes

Words that rhyme with interest

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