involve

Verbs

  • (v) connect closely and often incriminatingly
    • This new ruling affects your business
    affect, regard,
  • (v) engage as a participant
    • Don't involve me in your family affairs!
  • (v) have as a necessary feature
    • This decision involves many changes
    imply,
  • (v) require as useful, just, or proper
    • It takes nerve to do what she did
    • success usually requires hard work
    • This job asks a lot of patience and skill
    • This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice
    • This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert
    • This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent
    necessitate, need, require, call for, demand, postulate, ask, take,
  • (v) contain as a part
    • Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses
  • (v) occupy or engage the interest of
    • His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon
  • (v) make complex or intricate or complicated
    • The situation was rather involved

Synonyms

affect regard imply necessitate need require call for demand postulate ask take

Antonyms

obviate rid of eliminate

Words of close approximity

involved involvement