adj
Meaning 1
Complicated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- He related an involved story about every ancestor since 1895.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
involved
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɪnˈvɒlvd/
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British, Southern, Standard: /ɪnˈvɔlvd/
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Multicultural-London-English: /ɪnˈvoːvd/
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General-American: /ɪnˈvɑlvd/
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CMU ARPABET: IH2 N V AA1 L V D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Associated with others, be a participant or make someone be a participant (in a crime, process, etc.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The people involved in the project for three years.
- He got/was involved in a bar fight.
- When the family wrapped up my father's will, no one tried to make me feel involved.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Having an affair with someone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
simple past and past participle of involve
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
Examples
- The explanation involved potatoes, squirrels, and race cars.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 5
connected by participation or association or use
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: uninvolved
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
emotionally involved
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 7
entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the difficulties in which the question is involved
- brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mired
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 8
enveloped
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a castle involved in mist
- the difficulties in which the question is involved
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 9
highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious- Sir Walter Scott
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
- tortuous legal procedures
- tortuous negotiations lasting for months
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Byzantine, convoluted, knotty, tangled, tortuous
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From involve + -ed.
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: betrokke — associated with others, be or be made a participant
- Arabic: مُتَوَرِّط (mutawarriṭ) — associated with others, be or be made a participant
- Bulgarian: замесен (zamesen) — associated with others, be or be made a participant
- Esperanto: implikita — associated with others, be or be made a participant
- Esperanto: envolvita — associated with others, be or be made a participant
- Esperanto: anigita — associated with others, be or be made a participant
- Esperanto: implikiĝinta — associated with others, be or be made a participant
- Esperanto: envolviĝinta — associated with others, be or be made a participant
- Esperanto: aniĝinta — associated with others, be or be made a participant
- Estonian: seostuv — associated with others, be or be made a participant
- Finnish: osallinen — associated with others, be or be made a participant
- Finnish: asiaan liittyvä — associated with others, be or be made a participant
- German: beteiligt — associated with others, be or be made a participant
- German: betroffen — associated with others, be or be made a participant
- Hebrew: מְעֹרָב (m'oráv) — associated with others, be or be made a participant
- Italian: coinvolto — associated with others, be or be made a participant
- Italian: associato — associated with others, be or be made a participant
- Khmer: ខ្វល់ (kvɑl) — associated with others, be or be made a participant
- Polish: zaangażowany — associated with others, be or be made a participant
- Polish: zainteresowany — associated with others, be or be made a participant
- Portuguese: envolvido — associated with others, be or be made a participant
- Russian: вовлечённый (vovlečónnyj) — associated with others, be or be made a participant
- Russian: прича́стный (pričástnyj) — associated with others, be or be made a participant
- Spanish: involucrado — associated with others, be or be made a participant
- Swedish: delaktig — associated with others, be or be made a participant
- Swedish: involverad — associated with others, be or be made a participant
- Tagalog: sangkot — associated with others, be or be made a participant
- Ukrainian: приче́тний (pryčétnyj) — associated with others, be or be made a participant
- German: eine Affäre haben — having an affair with someone
- Italian: implicato — having an affair with someone
- Italian: interessato — having an affair with someone
- Polish: w związku — having an affair with someone
- Portuguese: envolvido — having an affair with someone
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