Free TranslationFree Translation
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Involved   /ɪnvˈɑlvd/   Listen
Involved

adjective
1.
Connected by participation or association or use.  "The problems involved" , "The involved muscles" , "I don't want to get involved" , "Everyone involved in the bribery case has been identified"
2.
Entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire.  Synonym: mired.  "Brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion"
3.
Emotionally involved.
4.
Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious.  Synonyms: Byzantine, convoluted, knotty, tangled, tortuous.  "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" , "Tortuous legal procedures" , "Tortuous negotiations lasting for months"
5.
Enveloped.  "The difficulties in which the question is involved"


Involve

verb
(past & past part. involved; pres. part. involving)
1.
Connect closely and often incriminatingly.  Synonyms: affect, regard.
2.
Engage as a participant.
3.
Have as a necessary feature.  Synonym: imply.
4.
Require as useful, just, or proper.  Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take.  "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.
Contain as a part.
6.
Occupy or engage the interest of.
7.
Make complex or intricate or complicated.



Related searches:
self-involved
involvement


WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Involved" Quotes from Famous Books



... Ostorius Scapula.—Ostorius, however, was soon involved in fresh troubles. Nothing is more difficult for a civilised power than to guard a frontier against barbarous tribes. Such tribes are accustomed to plunder one another, and they are quick to perceive that the order and peace which a civilised ...
— A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) - From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII • Samuel Rawson Gardiner
... room an instant longer; so old Jean called for help. He is awfully strong, and it took six of us to hold him. He said that if we would let him go, he would return in two hours, and that his honor and life were involved." ...
— The Champdoce Mystery • Emile Gaboriau
... it? With her wonder came annoyance over her lost wager. The beetle man, she judged, would be coolly superior about it. So she delivered herself of sundry stinging criticisms regarding the conduct of the Caracunan Administration in having stupidly involved itself in a blockade. She even spoke of going to see the President and apprising him ...
— The Unspeakable Perk • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... tale of an impoverished couple who made a competence by saving the pamphlets, advertisements, wedding cards, etc., that came to them through the mail, and developing a paper business on that basis; and the Skeleton in the Closet, which shows how the fate of the Southern Confederacy was involved in the adventures of a certain hoop-skirt, "built in the eclipse and rigged with curses dark." Mr. Hale's historical scholarship and his exact habit of mind have aided him in the art of giving vraisemblance to absurdities. He is known in philanthropy as well as in letters, and his tales have ...
— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers
... being beaten by a member of an impure caste, especially with a shoe. It is also a serious offence to be sent to jail, because a man has to eat the impure jail food. To be handcuffed is a minor offence, perhaps by analogy with the major one of being sent to jail, or else on account of the indignity involved by the touch of the police. As regards sexual offences, there is no direct punishment for a man as a rule, but if he lives with a low-caste woman he is temporarily expelled because it is assumed that he has taken food from her hands. Sometimes ...
— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India--Volume I (of IV) • R.V. Russell


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 e-Free Translation.com