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English adjective: involved | |||
| 1. | involved connected by participation or association or use | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Similar | active, caught up, concerned, concerned, embroiled, engaged, entangled, implicated, interested, neck-deep, participating, up to her neck, up to his neck, up to my neck, up to our necks, up to their necks, up to your neck | ||
| Antonyms | uninvolved | ||
| 2. | involved entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire | ||
| Samples | The difficulties in which the question is involved. Brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion. | ||
| Synonyms | mired | ||
| Similar | encumbered | ||
| Antonyms | unencumbered | ||
| 3. | involved emotionally involved | ||
| Similar | attached, committed | ||
| Antonyms | unattached, uncommitted | ||
| 4. | involved highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | ||
| Samples | 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. Tortuous legal procedures. Tortuous negotiations lasting for months. | ||
| Synonyms | Byzantine, convoluted, knotty, tangled, tortuous | ||
| Similar | complex | ||
| Antonyms | simple | ||
| 5. | involved enveloped | ||
| Samples | A castle involved in mist. The difficulties in which the question is involved. | ||
| Similar | enclosed | ||
| Antonyms | unenclosed | ||
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