Meaning & Definition of Involved in English

1. 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"

2. Entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire

• "The difficulties in which the question is involved"

• "Brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion"

3. Emotionally involved

4. 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"

5. Enveloped

• "A castle involved in mist"

• "The difficulties in which the question is involved"