Interested
Interested adjective - Having or showing interest; especially curiosity or fascination or concern.
Respectful and interested are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Respectful" instead an adjective "Interested".
Respectful
Respectful adjective - Marked by or showing proper regard for another's higher status.
Interested and respectful are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Interested" instead an adjective "Respectful".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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When he woke up, he was a new Guy Gardner, interested in poetry, good feelings, friendship, respectful, being nice to everyone... in short, everything that Guy Gardner is not.
- It is also very common in Japanese works, at least, to see a girl address a boy she's interested in as onii-sama, the ultra-respectful form of... 'big brother'.
Source: Brother-Sister Incest
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