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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INVOLV'ED, pp. Enveloped; implied; inwrapped; entangled.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
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"; "I don't want to get involved"; "everyone involved in the bribery case has been identified" [ant: uninvolved]
2: entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"; "brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion" [syn: involved, mired]
3: emotionally involved
4: highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "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" [syn: Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous]
5: enveloped; "a castle involved in mist"; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 15th century 1. involute, twisted 2. a. marked by extreme and often needless or excessive complexity b. difficult to deal with because of complexity or disorder 3. being affected or implicated Synonyms: see complex • involvedly adverb

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Involved In*volved", a. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Involute.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Involve In*volve", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Involved; p. pr. & vb. n. Involving.] [L. involvere, involutum, to roll about, wrap up; pref. in- in + volvere to roll: cf. OF. involver. See Voluble, and cf. Involute.] 1. To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine. Some of serpent kind . . . involved Their snaky folds. --Milton. 2. To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity. And leave a sing[`e]d bottom all involved With stench and smoke. --Milton. 3. To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure. ``Involved discourses.'' --Locke. 4. To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply. He knows His end with mine involved. --Milton. The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction. --Tillotson. 5. To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge. [R.] The gathering number, as it moves along, Involves a vast involuntary throng. --Pope. Earth with hell To mingle and involve. --Milton. 6. To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery. 7. To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb. ``Involved in a deep study.'' --Sir W. Scott. 8. (Math.) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times; as, a quantity involved to the third or fourth power. Syn: To imply; include; implicate; complicate; entangle; embarrass; overwhelm. Usage: To Involve, Imply. Imply is opposed to express, or set forth; thus, an implied engagement is one fairly to be understood from the words used or the circumstances of the case, though not set forth in form. Involve goes beyond the mere interpretation of things into their necessary relations; and hence, if one thing involves another, it so contains it that the two must go together by an indissoluble connection. War, for example, involves wide spread misery and death; the premises of a syllogism involve the conclusion.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. If you are involved in a situation or activity, you are taking part in it or have a strong connection with it. If she were involved in business, she would make a strong chief executive... ADJ: v-link ADJ, usu ADJ in/with n 2. If you are involved in something, you give a lot of time, effort, or attention to it. The family were deeply involved in Jewish culture. ADJ: v-link ADJ, usu ADJ in n 3. The things involved in something such as a job or system are the necessary parts or consequences of it. We believe the time and hard work involved in completing such an assignment are worthwhile... ADJ: v-link ADJ, oft ADJ in n 4. If a situation or activity is involved, it has a lot of different parts or aspects, often making it difficult to understand, explain, or do. The operations can be quite involved, requiring many procedures. = complicated, complex ADJ 5. If one person is involved with another, especially someone they are not married to, they are having a sexual or romantic relationship. He became romantically involved with a married woman. ADJ: oft v-link ADJ with n

Moby Thesaurus

Byzantine, a party to, absorbed, absorbed in, accessory, accused, active, affected, affiliate, affiliated, allied, arraignable, arraigned, associate, associated, assumed, at fault, balled up, biased, blamed, bound, bound up with, bracketed, burdened with debt, buried in, caught up in, censurable, charged, cited, collateral, complex, complicated, comprehended, comprised, concerned, confounded, confused, confusing, conjugate, connected, contemplating, contemplative, convoluted, correlated, coupled, covered, crabbed, criminal, culpable, daedal, deep in debt, denounced, devious, devoted, devoted to, elaborate, embarrassed, embraced, embrangled, encompassed, encumbered, engaged, engrossed, engrossed in, enmeshed, entangled, envisaged, faulty, fouled up, gordian, guilty, hinted, immersed in, impeachable, impeached, implicated, implied, impugned, in complicity, in debt, in difficulties, in embarrassed circumstances, in hock, in the hole, in the red, included, incriminated, inculpated, indebted, indicated, indictable, indicted, inferred, influenced, intent, intent on, interested, interlinked, interlocked, interrelated, intimated, intricate, involuted, joined, knotted, knotty, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, linked, lost in, loused up, many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, meant, meditating, meditative, messed up, mixed up, monomaniacal, monopolized, mortgaged, mucked up, muddled, multifarious, obsessed, occupied, of that ilk, of that kind, one-sided, parallel, partaking, partial, participant, participating, participative, participatory, partisan, peccant, perplexed, plunged in debt, preoccupied, presumed, presupposed, ramified, related, reprehensible, reproachable, reproached, reprovable, roundabout, screwed up, sharing, single-minded, snarled, sophisticated, spliced, studious, studying, submerged in, subtle, suggested, supposed, swayed, swept up, taken up with, tangled, tangly, tasked, taxed, tied, tied up, to blame, tortuous, totally absorbed, twinned, twisted, under attack, under fire, undetached, undispassionate, unneutral, warped, wed, wedded, wrapped in, wrapped up in, yoked