Synonyms: 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
Similar words: encumbered
Definition: loaded to excess or impeded by a heavy load
Usage: a summer resort...encumbered with great clapboard-and-stucco hotels- A.J.Liebling; a hiker encumbered with a heavy backpack; an encumbered estate
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: active, participating
Definition: taking part in an activity
Usage: an active member of the club; he was politically active; the participating organizations
Similar words: caught up
Definition: having become involved involuntarily
Usage: caught up in the excitement of the crowd; caught up in the scandal
Similar words: concerned, interested
Definition: involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in
Usage: a memorandum to those concerned; an enterprise in which three men are concerned; factors concerned in the rise and fall of epidemics; the interested parties met to discuss the business
Similar words: embroiled, entangled
Definition: deeply involved especially in something complicated
Usage: embroiled in the conflict; felt unwilling entangled in their affairs
Similar words: engaged
Definition: involved in military hostilities
Usage: the desperately engaged ships continued the fight
Similar words: implicated, concerned
Definition: culpably involved
Usage: all those concerned in the bribery case have been identified; named three officials implicated in the plot; an innocent person implicated by circumstances in a crime
Similar words: up to her neck, up to his neck, up to my neck, up to our necks, up to their necks, up to your neck, neck-deep
Definition: deeply involved
Usage: neck-deep in work; up to their necks in debt
Synonyms: involved
Definition: enveloped
Usage: a castle involved in mist; the difficulties in which the question is involved
Similar words: enclosed
Definition: closed in or surrounded or included within
Usage: an enclosed porch; an enclosed yard; the enclosed check is to cover shipping and handling
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: complex
Definition: complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts
Usage: a complex set of variations based on a simple folk melody; a complex mass of diverse laws and customs