What is the meaning of involved?

verb

  • Connect closely and often incriminatingly.
    • usage: "This new ruling affects your business"
  • Engage as a participant.
    • usage: "Don't involve me in your family affairs"
  • Have as a necessary feature.
    • usage: "This decision involves many changes"
  • Require as useful, just, or proper.
    • usage: "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"
  • Contain as a part.
    • usage: "Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses"
  • Occupy or engage the interest of.
    • usage: "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon"
  • Make complex or intricate or complicated.
    • usage: "The situation was rather involved"

adjective

  • Connected by participation or association or use.
    • usage: "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"
  • Entangled or hindered as if e. G. In mire.
    • usage: "the difficulties in which the question is involved"; "brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion"
  • Emotionally involved.
  • Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious.
    • usage: "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"
  • Enveloped.
    • usage: "a castle involved in mist"; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"
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