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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.

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"Involved" Quotes from Famous Books

... had finished my coffee I sat for a few minutes with a cigar on the porch, where the branches of the mimosa tree in full bloom drooped over the white railing. While I sat there, I thought drowsily of many things—of the various financial schemes in which I was now involved; of the big railroad deal which I had refused to shirk and which meant possible millions; of the fact that the General was rapidly aging, and had already spoken of resigning the presidency of the Great South Midland ...

— The Romance of a Plain Man • Ellen Glasgow

... like this at the present time, when integrity in a place of trust has become almost an anomaly, immediately suggests a defalcation; but Mr. Lynde's plan involved nothing more criminal than a horseback excursion through the northern part of the State of New Hampshire. A leave of absence of three weeks, which had been accorded him in recognition of several years' conscientious service, offered young Lynde the opportunity he had desired. ...

— The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

... its quietness pressed upon the listeners' minds like a heavy dream, and there was no real believing in anything but space. Our witch felt she could have smudged London off the face of space with her finger, and the thought of seven million lives involved in the fate of that sliding chart carried no conviction to her. She forced into her mind the realisation of humanity, and of little lives lived in ...

— Living Alone • Stella Benson

... the knowledge of how to make it, may, as a mere intellectual effort, be regarded as rather above than below the effort which is involved in the discovery and use of iron. As regards bronze, there is first the discovery of copper, and the way of getting it from its ore; then the discovery of tin, and the way to get it from its ore; and then the further discovery that, by an admixture of tin with copper in proper proportions, an alloy ...

— The Antediluvian World • Ignatius Donnelly

... nations and of ages. Many of our men of speculation, instead of exploding general prejudices, employ their sagacity to discover the latent wisdom which prevails in them. If they find what they seek, (and they seldom fail,) they think it more wise to continue the prejudice, with the reason involved, than to cast away the coat of prejudice, and to leave nothing but the naked reason; because prejudice, with its reason, has a motive to give action to that reason, and an affection which will give it permanence. Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. III. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

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