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

WordNet


In*volved" adjective
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) Same as Involute.

Webster 1913