Main entry: involved
Definition: emotionally involved
Definition: entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire
Usage: the difficulties in which the question is involved; brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion
Main entry: involved
Definition: connected by participation or association or use
Usage: 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
Main entry: involved
Definition: enveloped
Usage: a castle involved in mist; the difficulties in which the question is involved
Main entry: convoluted, Byzantine, involved, knotty, tortuous, tangled
Definition: highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
Usage: 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