Word Meanings - INTERESTINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In an interesting manner.
Related words: (words related to INTERESTINGLY)
- INTERESTED
1. Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener. 2. Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness. - INTERESTINGNESS
The condition or quality of being interesting. A. Smith. - MANNERIST
One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. - MANNERISM
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural - INTEREST
1. To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest him; to interest one in charitable work. To love our native country . . . to be interested in - INTERESTEDNESS
The state or quality of being interested; selfishness. Richardson. - INTERESTINGLY
In an interesting manner. - MANNERLINESS
The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale. - INTERESTING
Engaging the attention; exciting, or adapted to excite, interest, curiosity, or emotion; as, an interesting story; interesting news. Cowper. - MANNERED
1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style - MANNER
manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner - MANNERCHOR
A German men's chorus or singing club. - MANNERLY
Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak. - DISINTERESTING
Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton. - UNINTERESTED
1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration. - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - SELF-INTERESTED
Particularly concerned for one's own interest or happiness. - DISINTEREST
Disinterested. The measures they shall walk by shall be disinterest and even. Jer. Taylor. - BY-INTEREST
Self-interest; private advantage. Atterbury. - OVERMANNER
In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif. - ILL-MANNERED
Impolite; rude. - WELL-MANNERED
Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden. - DISINTERESTED
Not influenced by regard to personal interest or advantage; free from selfish motive; having no relation of interest or feeling; not biased or prejudiced; as, a disinterested decision or judge. The happiness of disinterested sacrifices. Channing. - DISINTERESTEDNESS
The state or quality of being disinterested; impartiality. That perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which man seems to be incapable, but which is sometimes found in woman. Macaulay.