involved Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. verb connect closely and often incriminatingly
   involve; affect; regard.
   
   • This new ruling affects your business
2. verb engage as a participant
   involve.
   
   • Don't involve me in your family affairs!
3. verb have as a necessary feature
   involve; imply.
   
   • This decision involves many changes
4. verb require as useful, just, or proper
   call for; require; necessitate; involve; need; take; demand; ask; postulate.
   
   • 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. verb contain as a part
   involve.
   
   • Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses
6. verb occupy or engage the interest of
   involve.
   
   • His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon
7. verb make complex or intricate or complicated
   involve.
   
   • The situation was rather involved
8. adjective 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
9. adjective satellite entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire
   mired.
   
   • the difficulties in which the question is involved
   • brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion
10. adjective satellite emotionally involved
    
11. adjective satellite highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
    Byzantine; tortuous; tangled; convoluted; knotty.
    
    • 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
12. adjective satellite enveloped
    
    • a castle involved in mist
    • the difficulties in which the question is involved

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