Definition of Involved

1. Adjective. Connected by participation or association or use. "Everyone involved in the bribery case has been identified"


2. Adjective. Entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire. "Brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion"
Exact synonyms: Mired
Similar to: Encumbered

3. Adjective. Emotionally involved.
Similar to: Attached, Committed

4. Adjective. Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious. "Tortuous negotiations lasting for months"
Exact synonyms: Byzantine, Convoluted, Knotty, Tangled, Tortuous
Similar to: Complex
Derivative terms: Knottiness, Tortuousness

5. Adjective. Enveloped. "The difficulties in which the question is involved"
Similar to: Enclosed

Definition of Involved

1. a. Same as Involute.

Definition of Involved

1. Adjective. Complicated. ¹

2. Adjective. Associated with others (in a crime, process, etc.) ¹

3. Adjective. Having an affair with someone. ¹

4. Verb. (past of involve) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Involved

1. involve [v] - See also: involve

Medical Definition of Involved

1. Same as Involute. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Involved

involute
involuted
involutes
involuting
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involution form
involution of the uterus
involutional
involutional depression
involutional melancholia
involutional psychosis
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invulnerability
invulnerable
invulnerableness
invulnerably

Literary usage of Involved

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"... and so it is improbable that intercalation of vertebrae occurs anterior to the posterior spinal nerve (V) involved in this plexus ; (6) with normal ..."

2. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1908)
"INTERNATIONAL LAW involved IN THE SEIZURE OF THE TATSU MARU The recent seizure (on February 5, 1908) of the Tatsu Maru, a Japanese merchant vessel, ..."

3. The Republic of Plato by Plato (1909)
"retreat the rest of mankind involved in lawlessness, finds himself happy if he can live his life here below pure from injustice and unholy deeds, ..."

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