involved

  • (a) 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
  • (s) entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire
    • the difficulties in which the question is involved
    • brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion
    mired,
  • (s) emotionally involved
  • (s) 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
    tortuous, convoluted, tangled, Byzantine, knotty,
  • (s) enveloped
    • a castle involved in mist
    • the difficulties in which the question is involved

Synonyms

mired tortuous convoluted tangled Byzantine knotty

Antonyms

uninvolved

Words of close approximity

involve