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Adjective involved has 5 senses
- involved - 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"
Antonyms: uninvolved, unconcerned
- involved, mired - entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"; "brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion"
Antonym: unencumbered (indirect, via encumbered)
- involved, involved with - emotionally involved
Antonyms: unattached, uncommitted (indirect, via attached)
- Byzantine, convoluted, intricate, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, tangled, tortuous - highly involved or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "intricate needlework"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"; "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"
Antonym: simple (indirect, via complex)
- involved - enveloped; "a castle involved in mist"; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"
Antonym: unenclosed (indirect, via enclosed)
Verb involve has 8 senses
- involve, affect, regard - connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business"
--1 is one way to refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch, touch on
Sample sentences:
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Something ----s somebody
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- involve - engage as a participant; "Don't involve me in your family affairs!"
--2 is one way to admit, let in, include
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
- imply, involve - have as a necessary feature or consequence; entail; "This decision involves many changes"
--3 is one way to necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand - 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 postulates a patient's consent"
Sample sentence:
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- involve - contain as a part; "Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses"
--5 is one way to include
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- involve - wrap; "The tower was involved in mist"
--6 is one way to envelop, enfold, enwrap, wrap, enclose
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- involve - occupy or engage the interest of; "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon"
--7 is one way to absorb, engross, engage, occupy
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Something ----s somebody
- involve - make complex or intricate or complicated; "The situation was rather involved"
--8 is one way to complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate
Sample sentences:
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