- involved
- adjective1. connected by participation or association or use (Freq. 23)-
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
• Ant: ↑uninvolved• Similar to:↑active, ↑participating, ↑caught up, ↑concerned, ↑interested, ↑embroiled, ↑entangled, ↑engaged, ↑implicated, ↑neck-deep, ↑up to my neck, ↑up to your neck, ↑up to her neck, ↑up to his neck, ↑up to our necks, ↑up to their necks2. entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire (Freq. 3)-the difficulties in which the question is involved
-brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion
• Syn: ↑mired• Similar to: ↑encumbered3. emotionally involved (Freq. 1)4. 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
• Syn: ↑Byzantine, ↑convoluted, ↑knotty, ↑tangled, ↑tortuous• Similar to: ↑complex• Derivationally related forms: ↑tortuousness (for: ↑tortuous), ↑knottiness (for: ↑knotty)5. enveloped-a castle involved in mist
-the difficulties in which the question is involved
• Similar to: ↑enclosed
Useful english dictionary. 2012.