involved

Meanings

• connect closely and often incriminatingly
• engage as a participant
• have as a necessary feature
• require as useful, just, or proper
• contain as a part
• occupy or engage the interest of
  • "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon"
• make complex or intricate or complicated
  • "The situation was rather involved"
• 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"
• entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire
  • "the difficulties in which the question is involved"
• emotionally involved
• highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; - Sir Walter Scott
  • "the plot was too involved"
• enveloped
  • "a castle involved in mist"
  • "the difficulties in which the question is involved"

Synonyms

affect, ask, Byzantine, call for, convoluted, demand, imply, involve, knotty, mired, necessitate, need, postulate, regard, require, take, tangled, tortuous