involved

involved
adjective
1. connected by participation or association or use (Freq. 23)
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we accomplished nothing, simply because of the large number of people involved

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the problems involved

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the involved muscles

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I don't want to get involved

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everyone involved in the bribery case has been identified

• Ant: ↑uninvolved
• Similar to:
2. entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire (Freq. 3)
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the difficulties in which the question is involved

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brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion

• Syn: ↑mired
• Similar to: ↑encumbered
3. emotionally involved (Freq. 1)
• Similar to: ↑attached, ↑committed
4. highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
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the Byzantine tax structure

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Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship

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convoluted legal language

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convoluted reasoning

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the plot was too involved

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a knotty problem

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got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering

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

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tortuous legal procedures

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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
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a castle involved in mist

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the difficulties in which the question is involved

• Similar to: ↑enclosed

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