Involved - Definition
involved
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"