What does involved mean?

Definitions for involved
ɪnˈvɒlvdin·volved

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word involved.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. involvedadjective

    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. involved, miredadjective

    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. involvedadjective

    emotionally involved

  4. Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuousadjective

    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. involvedadjective

    enveloped

    "a castle involved in mist"; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"

Wiktionary

  1. involvedadjective

    Complicated.

    He related an involved story about every ancestor since 1895.

  2. involvedadjective

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

  3. involvedadjective

    Having an affair with someone.

ChatGPT

  1. involved

    Involved generally refers to being actively participated or engaged in an activity, event, situation or a process. It also suggests being implicated or included as a part of something, or having a strong emotional or personal connection to it.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Involved

    of Involve

  2. Involvedadjective

    same as Involute

Editors Contribution

  1. involved

    Making a contribution.

    They were involved in the decision making process and they were very grateful.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 1, 2020  

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'involved' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #970

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'involved' in Written Corpus Frequency: #959

  3. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'involved' in Adjectives Frequency: #128

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of involved in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of involved in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of involved in a Sentence

  1. Democratic Sen. Tom Carper:

    We have some staff who were involved in the impeachment proceedings of President Clinton. We have members who were involved and staff who were involved.

  2. Lao Tzu:

    Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.

  3. Lisa Alther:

    That's the risk you take if you change that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

  4. Thomas Huxley:

    Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

  5. John Donne:

    No man is an Island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls It tolls for thee.

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