Akademik

involved

adjective

1. 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:

2. 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: ↑encumbered

3. emotionally involved (Freq. 1)

• Similar to: ↑attached, ↑committed

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

• 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.