"involved" in the verb sense

1. involve, affect, regard

connect closely and often incriminatingly

"This new ruling affects your business"

2. involve

engage as a participant

"Don't involve me in your family affairs!"

3. imply, involve

have as a necessary feature

"This decision involves many changes"

4. necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand

require as useful, just, or proper

"It takes nerve to do what she did"

"success usually requires hard work"

"This job asks a lot of patience and skill"

"This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"

"This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"

"This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"

5. involve

contain as a part

"Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses"

6. involve

occupy or engage the interest of

"His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon"

7. involve

make complex or intricate or complicated

"The situation was rather involved"

"involved" in the adjective sense

1. involved

connected by participation or association or use

"we accomplished nothing, simply because of the large number of people involved"

"the problems involved"

"the involved muscles"

"I don't want to get involved"

"everyone involved in the bribery case has been identified"

2. involved, mired

entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire

"the difficulties in which the question is involved"

"brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion"

3. involved

emotionally involved

4. Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous

highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

"the Byzantine tax structure"

"Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"

"convoluted legal language"

"convoluted reasoning"

"the plot was too involved"

"a knotty problem"

"got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott

"tortuous legal procedures"

"tortuous negotiations lasting for months"

5. involved

enveloped

"a castle involved in mist"

"the difficulties in which the question is involved"

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