Enjoy vs Interested - What's the difference?
enjoy | interested |
To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= To have the use or benefit of something.
* Bible, Numbers xxxvi. 8
* 1988 , Harry G Frankfurt, The importance of what we care about: philosophical essays
To have sexual intercourse with.
Having or showing interest.
Motivated by considerations of self-interest; self-serving.
* 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy :
Owning a share of a company.
(interest)
As verbs the difference between enjoy and interested
is that enjoy is to receive pleasure or satisfaction from something while interested is past tense of interest.As an adjective interested is
having or showing interest.enjoy
English
Verb
(en verb)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
- that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers
- This account fails to provide any basis for doubting that animals of subhuman species enjoy the freedom it defines.
- (Milton)
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . SeeDerived terms
* enjoyable * enjoyment * to enjoy oneselfinterested
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I'm very interested in going to see that play.
- they impressed my youthful mind with a sincere aversion to the northern inhabitants of Britain, as a people bloodthirsty in time of war, treacherous during truce, interested , selfish, avaricious, and tricky in the business of peaceful life, and having few good qualities [...].