involved

(verb) connect closely and often incriminatingly. Synonyms: involve, affect, regard. Example: "This new ruling affects your business."

(verb) engage as a participant. Synonyms: involve. Example: "Don't involve me in your family affairs!."

(verb) have as a necessary feature. Synonyms: imply, involve. Example: "This decision involves many changes."

(verb) require as useful, just, or proper. Synonyms: necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand. Examples: "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 postulate a patient's consent."

(verb) contain as a part. Synonyms: involve. Example: "Dinner at joe's always involves at least six courses."

(verb) occupy or engage the interest of. Synonyms: involve. Example: "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon."

(verb) make complex or intricate or complicated. Synonyms: involve. Example: "The situation was rather involved."

(adj) connected by participation or association or use. Synonyms: involved (vs. uninvolved). Examples: "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."

(adj) entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire. Synonyms: mired. Examples: "The difficulties in which the question is involved." "Brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion."

(adj) emotionally involved.

(adj) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious. Synonyms: Byzantine, convoluted, knotty, tangled, tortuous. Examples: "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."

(adj) enveloped. Examples: "A castle involved in mist." "The difficulties in which the question is involved."