1. Connected by participation, association or use
   "the involved muscles"; "I don't want to get involved"; "everyone involved in the bribery case has been identified"; "we accomplished nothing, simply because of the large number of people involved"; "the problems involved"
    
2. Emotionally involved
   "She became deeply involved in the charity's mission"
    
3. Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
   "the plot was too involved";
   - Byzantine, convoluted, knotty, tangled, tortuous, labyrinthine
    
4. Entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire
   "the difficulties in which the question is involved";
   - mired
    
5. Enveloped
   "a castle involved in mist"; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"

1. Contain as a part
   "Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses"
    
2. Have as a necessary feature
   "This decision involves many changes";
   - imply
    
3. Make essential as a condition or prerequisite
   "This job involves a lot of patience and skill";
   - necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, call for, demand
    
4. Engage as a participant
   "Don't involve me in your family affairs!"
    
5. Connect closely and often incriminatingly
   "This new ruling involves your business";
   - affect, regard
    
6. Occupy or engage the interest of
   "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon"
    
7. Make complex, intricate or complicated
   "The situation was rather involved"
    
8. [literary] Surround or envelop completely
   "The fog involved the entire valley"

See also: active, attached, caught up, committed, complex, complicit, complicitous, concerned, embroiled, enclosed, encumbered, engaged, entangled, implicated, interested, neck-deep, participating, up to her neck, up to his neck, up to my neck, up to our necks, up to their necks, up to your neck

Type of: absorb, admit, bear on, complicate, concern, elaborate, engage, engross, feature, have, have to do with, include, let in, occupy, pertain, rarefy, rarify [rare], refer, refine, relate, touch, touch on

Antonym: uninvolved

Encyclopedia: Involved