What is another word for interest?
Synonyms for interest
ˈɪn tər ɪst, -trɪstin·ter·est
This thesaurus page includes all potential synonyms, words with the same meaning and similar terms for the word interest.
Wiktionary
interestnoun
Antonyms:
bore, disinterestinterestverb
To attract attention or concern.
It might interest you to learn that others have already tried that approach.
Antonyms:
disinterest, bore
English Synonyms and Antonyms
interest
To entertain, in the sense here considered, is to engage and pleasantly occupy the attention; to amuse is to occupy the attention in an especially bright and cheerful way, often with that which excites merriment or laughter; as, he entertained us with an amusing story. To divert is to turn from serious thoughts or laborious pursuits to something that lightly and agreeably occupies the mind; one may be entertained or amused who has nothing serious or laborious from which to be diverted. To recreate, literally to re-create, is to engage mind or body in some pleasing activity that restores strength and energy for serious work. To beguile is, as it were, to cheat into cheer and comfort by something that insensibly draws thought or feeling away from pain or disquiet. We beguile a weary hour, cheer the despondent, divert the preoccupied, enliven a dull evening or company, gratify our friends' wishes, entertain, interest, please a listening audience, occupy idle time, disport ourselves when merry, recreate when worn with toil; we amuse ourselves or others with whatever pleasantly passes the time without special exertion, each according to his taste.
Synonyms:
amuse, beguile, cheer, delight, disport, divert, enliven, entertain, gratify, occupy, please, recreateAntonyms:
annoy, bore, busy, disquiet, distract, disturb, tire, weary
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
interestnoun
Synonyms:
concern, business advantage, profit, attention, curiosity behalf, cause, shareAntonyms:
unconcern, disconnection, repudiation, disadvantage, loss, inattention, incuriosity, indifference
Princeton's WordNet
interest, involvementnoun
a sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something
"an interest in music"
Synonyms:
sake, interest group, stake, affaire, affair, intimacy, interestingness, participation, involution, liaison, amour, pastime, pursuit, involvement, engagementsake, interestnoun
a reason for wanting something done
"for your sake"; "died for the sake of his country"; "in the interest of safety"; "in the common interest"
Synonyms:
rice beer, saki, stake, interest group, interestingness, sake, pastime, pursuit, involvementinterest, interestingnessnoun
the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.)
"they said nothing of great interest"; "primary colors can add interest to a room"
Synonyms:
sake, interest group, stake, interestingness, pastime, pursuit, involvementinterestnoun
a fixed charge for borrowing money; usually a percentage of the amount borrowed
"how much interest do you pay on your mortgage?"
Synonyms:
interest group, pastime, stake, involvement, interestingness, sake, pursuitinterest, stakenoun
(law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something
"they have interests all over the world"; "a stake in the company's future"
Synonyms:
sake, interest group, stake, wager, interestingness, post, stakes, pastime, pursuit, involvement, betinterest, interest groupnoun
(usually plural) a social group whose members control some field of activity and who have common aims
"the iron interests stepped up production"
Synonyms:
sake, interest group, stake, interestingness, pastime, pursuit, involvementpastime, interest, pursuitverb
a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly)
"sailing is her favorite pastime"; "his main pastime is gambling"; "he counts reading among his interests"; "they criticized the boy for his limited pursuits"
Synonyms:
hobby, interest group, sideline, interestingness, pursual, following, pursuance, chase, sake, avocation, pastime, involvement, stake, by-line, quest, spare-time activity, pursuitinterestverb
excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of
concern, interest, occupy, worryverb
be on the mind of
"I worry about the second Germanic consonant shift"
Synonyms:
lodge in, invade, occupy, touch, engross, care, use up, matter to, have-to doe with, worry, touch on, absorb, engage, busy, fill, come to, relate, refer, reside, take, pertain, bear on, vex, concernmatter to, interestverb
be of importance or consequence
"This matters to me!"
Matched Categories
Dictionary of English Synonymes
interestverb
Synonyms:
concern, affect, touch, be of importance tointerestverb
interestnoun
interestnoun
Synonyms:
share, portion, part, participationinterestnoun
interestnoun
interestnoun
Synonyms:
selfishness, self-interest, private interestinterestnoun
Synonyms:
premium for the use of money, profit from money loaned
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "interest":
interests, concern, benefit, attention, sake, relevance, interesting, 'intérêt, importance, stake, self-interest, benefits, interested, focus, value, significance, τόκων, relevant, usefulness
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
---|---|---|
#137 | post | |
#145 | please | |
#246 | take | |
#309 | care | |
#318 | following | |
#410 | value | |
#653 | interest | |
#660 | share | |
#1058 | benefits | |
#1223 | cause | |
#1230 | focus | |
#1616 | interested | |
#1727 | benefit | |
#1748 | interesting | |
#1816 | relevant | |
#1836 | attention | |
#2060 | interests | |
#2192 | touch | |
#2291 | fill | |
#2314 | profit | |
#2802 | participation | |
#2884 | refer | |
#2946 | importance | |
#3115 | concern | |
#4087 | busy | |
#4364 | bet | |
#4523 | involvement | |
#4737 | quest | |
#5005 | worry | |
#5546 | engagement | |
#5752 | chase | |
#6192 | significance | |
#6220 | engage | |
#6843 | relate | |
#7152 | hobby | |
#7211 | relevance | |
#8496 | sake | |
#9338 | delight | |
#9420 | affair | |
#9574 | pursuit | |
#9992 | stake | |
#10032 | liaison | |
#12123 | stakes | |
#12252 | cheer | |
#14008 | entertain | |
#14382 | reside | |
#15816 | absorb | |
#15899 | occupy | |
#16611 | usefulness | |
#20144 | intimacy | |
#21460 | invade | |
#21903 | wager | |
#22090 | amour | |
#26034 | divert | |
#26041 | recreate | |
#27042 | pertain | |
#32912 | sideline | |
#36065 | pastime | |
#37190 | amuse | |
#48538 | pursuance | |
#54523 | vex | |
#68159 | saki | |
#75952 | enliven | |
#76480 | affaire | |
#77402 | involution | |
#87051 | gratify | |
#135964 | avocation | |
#145095 | beguile | |
#152959 | interestingness | |
#233923 | engross |
How to use interest in a sentence?
Fans come to the arena and they now have the ability to have a rooting interest, if you will, in the outcome of the game, i just view this as a natural extension of what was happening but to do it in a more modern — in the sunlight, in a transparent — way.
We have at least now 62 different government agencies that have identified they have a problem with people using 'official time' -- that would be union activities, special interest and political activity for unions rather than the purpose for which they were hired by those individual agencies.
Strategy Analytics consultant Roger Lanctot:
It's not in carmakers' interest to annoy the dealer.
It’s in the national interest to close Guantanamo.
Currency markets basically focus on how much (monetary policy) pushes down real interest rates.
Translations for interest
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- belangstellingAfrikaans
- فائدة, اهتمامArabic
- maraqAzerbaijani
- интерес, лихваBulgarian
- interèsCatalan, Valencian
- úrok, zajímat, zájemCzech
- buddWelsh
- interesse, interessant, interessereDanish
- interessieren, Interesse, ZinsGerman
- ενδιαφέρον, συμφέρον, τόκοςGreek
- intereso, interezo, interesiEsperanto
- interés, interesarSpanish
- interesBasque
- kiinnostaa, etu, kiinnostus, intressi, korko, mielenkiinto, omistusFinnish
- intérêt, intéresserFrench
- suimScottish Gaelic
- use, foayrManx
- אינטרס, תשומת לב, עניין, ריביתHebrew
- स्वारस्य, ब्याज, सूदHindi
- érdek, érdeklődés, kamat, érdekelHungarian
- interesseInterlingua
- bungaIndonesian
- interesse, interessare, attrarre, attenzioneItalian
- 利息, 興味, 興味を引く, 利益, 関心, 利子Japanese
- 흥미, 관심, 이자Korean
- faîz, entres, riba, mereq, balkêşîKurdish
- dominti, susidomėjimas, procentai, palūkanos, interesas, domėtis, domėjimasis, suinteresuotiLithuanian
- procenti, interesēties, interese, interesēt, augļiLatvian
- moni whakatupuMāori
- പലിശ, താല്പര്യംMalayalam
- faedah, bunga, minat, kepentinganMalay
- interesse, belang, interest, interesseren, rente, belangstellingDutch
- rente, interesse, interessere, interesseraNorwegian
- odsetki, zainteresowanie, interesyPolish
- interesse, interessar, jurosPortuguese
- interesa, interes, interes material, preocupare, dobândăRomanian
- интерес, заинтересовать, интересовать, интересоваться, заинтересоваться, процентRussian
- kamata, камата, ȉnterēs, и̏нтере̄сSerbo-Croatian
- úrokSlovak
- ränta, intressera, intresseSwedish
- ఆసక్తి, వడ్డీTelugu
- faizTurkish
- quan tâmVietnamese
- nitedön, nitedVolapük
- 利益Chinese
Get even more translations for interest »
Translation
Find a translation for the interest synonym in other languages:
Select another language:
- - Select -
- 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
- 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
- Español (Spanish)
- Esperanto (Esperanto)
- 日本語 (Japanese)
- Português (Portuguese)
- Deutsch (German)
- العربية (Arabic)
- Français (French)
- Русский (Russian)
- ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
- 한국어 (Korean)
- עברית (Hebrew)
- Gaeilge (Irish)
- Українська (Ukrainian)
- اردو (Urdu)
- Magyar (Hungarian)
- मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
- Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Italiano (Italian)
- தமிழ் (Tamil)
- Türkçe (Turkish)
- తెలుగు (Telugu)
- ภาษาไทย (Thai)
- Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
- Čeština (Czech)
- Polski (Polish)
- Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Românește (Romanian)
- Nederlands (Dutch)
- Ελληνικά (Greek)
- Latinum (Latin)
- Svenska (Swedish)
- Dansk (Danish)
- Suomi (Finnish)
- فارسی (Persian)
- ייִדיש (Yiddish)
- հայերեն (Armenian)
- Norsk (Norwegian)
- English (English)
Citation
Use the citation below to add these synonyms to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"interest." Synonyms.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 9 Jun 2024. <https://www.synonyms.com/synonym/interest>.
Discuss these interest synonyms with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In