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Definitions for Involved

[1] very intricate or complex: an involved reply.
[2] implicated: involved in crime.
[3] concerned in some affair, especially in a way likely to cause danger or unpleasantness: I didn't call the police because I didn't want to get involved.
[4] committed or engaged, as in a political cause or artistic movement: The civil rights demonstration attracted the involved young people of the area.
[5] to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail: This job involves long hours and hard work.
[6] to engage or employ.
[7] to affect, as something within the scope of operation.
[8] to include, contain, or comprehend within itself or its scope.
[9] to bring into an intricate or complicated form or condition.
[10] to bring into difficulties (usually followed by with ): a plot to involve one nation in a war with another.
[11] to cause to be troublesomely associated or concerned, as in something embarrassing or unfavorable: Don't involve me in your quarrel!
[12] to combine inextricably (usually followed by with ).
[13] to implicate, as in guilt or crime, or in any matter or affair.
[14] to engage the interests or emotions or commitment of: to become involved in the disarmament movement; to become involved with another woman.
[15] to preoccupy or absorb fully (usually used passively or reflexively): You are much too involved with the problem to see it clearly.
[16] to envelop or enfold, as if with a wrapping.
[17] to swallow up, engulf, or overwhelm.
[18] Archaic . to roll, surround, or shroud, as in a wrapping. to roll up on itself; wind spirally; coil; wreathe.
[19] complicated; difficult to comprehend an involved literary style
[20] (usually postpositive) concerned or implicated one of the men involved
[21] (postpositive foll by with ) euphemistic having sexual relations she was involved with a number of men
[22] to include or contain as a necessary part the task involves hard work
[23] to have an effect on; spread to the investigation involved many innocent people
[24] (often passive; usually foll by in or with) to concern or associate significantly many people were involved in the crime
[25] (often passive) to make complicated; tangle the situation was further involved by her disappearance
[26] rare , often poetic to wrap or surround
[27] maths obsolete to raise to a specified power

Words related to Involved

affected, concerned, interested, embroiled, participating, muddled, elaborate, sophisticated, winding, tangled, convoluted, confusing, caught, hooked, embarrassed, occupied, enmeshed, complex, difficult, intricate

Words nearby Involved

involution, involutional, involutional melancholia, involutional psychosis, involve, involved, invt., invulnerable, invultuation, inwale, inwall

Origin of Involved

1350–1400; Middle English involven < Latin involvere to roll in or up, equivalent to in- in-2 + volvere to roll; see revolve

Other words from Involved

in·volv·ed·ly [in-vol -vid-lee, -volvd -] /ɪnˈvɒl vɪd li, -ˈvɒlvd-/ , adverb
in·volv·ed·ness , noun
non·in·volved , adjective
un·in·volved , adjective
in·volve·ment , noun
in·volv·er , noun
in·ter·in·volve , verb (used with object), in·ter·in·volved, in·ter·in·volv·ing.
non·in·volve·ment , noun
o·ver·in·volve , verb (used with object), o·ver·in·volved, o·ver·in·volv·ing.
pre·in·volve , verb (used with object), pre·in·volved, pre·in·volv·ing.
pre·in·volve·ment , noun
re·in·volve , verb (used with object), re·in·volved, re·in·volv·ing.
re·in·volve·ment , noun

Word origin for Involved

C14: from Latin involvere to roll in, surround, from in- ² + volvere to roll

Synonyms for Involved

confusing, convoluted, elaborate, muddled, ramified, sophisticated, tangled, winding, Gordian, byzantine, complex, difficult, high-tech, intricate, knotty, labyrinthine, mazy, tortuous