involved

involved

adjective

Definition of INVOLVED

1

: involute, twisted

2

a : marked by extreme and often needless or excessive complexity

b : difficult to deal with because of complexity or disorder

3

: being affected or implicated

— in·volv·ed·ly \-ˈväl-vəd-lē, -ˈvȯl- also -ˈvä-vəd- or -ˈvȯ-\ adverb

Examples of INVOLVED

1. a long and involved story
2. The instructions for assembling the toy are very involved.
3. The process is quite involved.
4. Those of us who were involved knew exactly what happened.
5. Students who stay involved get more out of the program.
6. If you want to make things better, you need to get involved.
7. They quickly became romantically involved.
8. No one knew that they were involved.

First Known Use of INVOLVED

15th century

Related to INVOLVED

Synonyms

baroque, byzantine, complicate, complicated, convoluted, daedal, elaborate, intricate, involute, complex, knotty, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, sophisticated, tangled

Antonyms

noncomplex, noncomplicated, plain, simple, uncomplicated

Related Words

overcomplex, overcomplicated; composite, compound, heterogeneous, mixed, multibranched, multifaceted, multifarious, multipart, varied; challenging, difficult, tough; impenetrable, incomprehensible, inexplicable, Kafkaesque, unfathomable, unintelligible

Near Antonyms

oversimplified, simplified, simplistic; homogeneous, uniform, unvaried

See Synonym Discussion at complex