involved

Verb

• connect closely and often incriminatingly
• engage as a participant
• have as a necessary feature
• require as useful, just, or proper
• contain as a part
• occupy or engage the interest of
  • "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon"
• make complex or intricate or complicated
  • "The situation was rather involved"
• simple past and past participle of involve

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"

Adjective Satellite

• entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire
  • "the difficulties in which the question is involved"
• emotionally involved
• highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; - Sir Walter Scott
  • "the plot was too involved"
• enveloped
  • "a castle involved in mist"
  • "the difficulties in which the question is involved"

Adj

• Complicated.
• Associated with others, be a participant or make someone be a participant (in a crime, process, etc.)
• Having an affair with someone.

Examples

• He got/was involved in a bar fight.
• He related an involved story about every ancestor since 1895.
• The explanation involved potatoes, squirrels, and race cars.
• The people involved in the project for three years.
• When the family wrapped up my father's will, no one tried to make me feel involved.

Synonyms

affect, ask, Byzantine, call for, convoluted, demand, imply, involve, knotty, mired, necessitate, need, postulate, regard, require, take, tangled, tortuous

Antonyms

obviate, uninvolved

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