involved
adjective
1. 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
Similar word(s): active, participating, concerned, interested, embroiled, entangled, engaged, implicated
2. entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire
- the difficulties in which the question is involved
Similar word(s): encumbered, mired
3. emotionally involved
Similar word(s): attached, committed
4. highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
- the plot was too involved
Similar word(s): complex, byzantine, convoluted, knotty, tangled, tortuous
5. enveloped
- a castle involved in mist
Similar word(s): enclosed
Sentences with involved as an adjective:
- He related an involved story about every ancestor since 1895.
- He got involved in a bar fight.
- When the family wrapped up my father's will, no one tried to make me feel involved.
verb
1. simple past tense and past participle of involve
- The explanation involved potatoes, squirrels, and race cars.