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Definition: Involved |
InvolvedAdjective1. Connected by participation or association or use; "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". 2. Entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"; "brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion". 3. Emotionally involved. 4. Highly involved or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "intricate needlework"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"; "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". 5. Enveloped; "a castle involved in mist"; "the difficulties in which the question is involved". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "involved" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: InvolvedSynonyms: convoluted (adj), intricate (adj), involved with(p) (adj), knotty (adj), labyrinthine (adj), mired (adj), tangled (adj), tortuous (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: uninvolved (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Complexity | Adjective: gnarled, knarled. complex, complexed; intricate, complicated, perplexed, involved, raveled, entangled, knotted, tangled, inextricable; irreducible. |
Convolution | Involved, intricate, complicated, perplexed; labyrinth, labyrinthic, labyrinthian, labyrinthine; peristaltic; daedalian; kinky, knotted. |
Debt | In debt, in embarrassed circumstances, in difficulties; incumbered, involved; involved in debt, plunged in debt, deep in debt, over one's head in debt, over head and ears in debt; deeply involved; fast tied up; insolvent; (not paying); minus, out of pocket. |
Obscurity | Adjective: obscure; Noun: crabbed, involved, confused. |
Poverty | In want; Noun: needy, necessitous, distressed, pinched, straitened; put to one's shifts, put to one's last shifts; unable to keep the wolf from the door, unable to make both ends meet; embarrassed, under hatches; involved; (in debt); insolvent; (not paying). |
Secret | Adjective: secret; (concealed); involved labyrinthine, labyrinthian, mazy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Involved |
| English words defined with "involved": involved with. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "involved": involve. (references) |
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Screenplays | If you're referring to the incident with the Dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Personally, I think, uh they don't really want to be involved in this war. You know, I mean they sort of took away our freedom and gave it to the, to the gookers, you know (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford; Michael Herr) But I'm too involved now. You jump, I jump, remember (Titanic; writing credit: James Cameron) Tyler was now involved in a class action lawsuit against the Pressman Hotel over the urine content of their soup (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) Anna's a goddess, you know what happens to mortals who get involved with gods (Notting Hill; writing credit: Richard Curtis) | |
Clever | Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. (references; author: Mark Twain) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those involved actually know what goes into it. (references; author: unknown) | |
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Schematic diagram of chromosomes 8, 2, 14, and 22 which are involved in the translocations (usually 8;14, less frequently 8;22 or 2;8) which occur in Burkitt's Lymphoma. The break points for these translocations are identified by the banding regions (q24, p13, q32 and q11). These break points on chromosomes 2, 14, and 22 correspond to chromosomal regions to which have been mapped the kappa, heavy chain and lambda constant region genes respectively. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | Shown is a lab technician filling wells with a liquid for a research test. This researcher is involved in preparation of cultures in which hybrids are grown in large quantities to produce a desired antibody. This is effected by fusing myeloma cell and mouse b-lymphocyte to form hybrid cell (hybridoma). Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). | ||
Ground Squirrels like this Spotted Ground Squirrel, S. spilosoma, have been involved in plague epizootics. Credit: CDC. | People involved in trapping and skinning wild carnivores, especially bobcats, should be extremely cautious about exposure to Y. pestis vectors. Credit: CDC. | ||
![]() | Collimating the inner tower at Station Winnie Collimation involved placing the observing instrument directly over the mark Triangulation party of Carl I. Aslakson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Full-crew effort to recover current meter buoy Even the cook was involved Off of WAINRIGHT Photo #2 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Hamm Creek, a Coastal America project to clean channel to provide better habitat conditions for spawning salmon. This project involved the planting of trees and placement of rock to control erosion and removal of the old ferry. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ![]() | Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. This restoration site along Henderson Creek involved removal of illegally placed fill and non-native plants, reestablishing tidal flushing, and planting of mangroves. the restoration was initiated in 1990. Recolonization of native vegetation is visible along the cut lines. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
![]() | Figure 21. Silvertown Company sounder, a device very similar to the Belknap- Sigsbee sounder with one important difference. This sounder had a unique ballast release method which involved a knife cutting the line holding the ballast upon beginning of ascent. This device was used in cable laying surveys. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Figure 8. Nepyric Turbidity Measurement Instrument. The Nepyric Corporation was involved for many years with studying numerous types of sediment samplers designed to retrieve suspended solids in flowing water, retained by dams, or in marine zones. One of these models was implemented in 1948 by Jean Serpaud and used for river sediment sampling. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| "David Lights Up" by Shawn Sutherland Commentary: "No photo-editing involved other than to brighten and add depth. My digital camera does odd things when there's not enough light. This is a photo of David lighting up. Kind of arty." | "Spark" by C.H. So Commentary: "A project which I was involved in the last 8 months. Welding bits of metal together." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Bartholini | Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness. |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. |
Thomas H. Huxley | Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | The bourgeoisie finds itself involved in a constant battle. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The upkeep and cost of the Commissions of Control and the expenses involved by their work shall be borne by Germany. (reference) |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | Our decision, therefore, cannot turn on merely a comparison of these tangible factors in the Negro and white schools involved in each of the cases. (reference) |
Roe v. Wade | 1973 | State criminal abortion laws, like those involved here, that except from criminality only a life-saving procedure on the mother's behalf without regard to the stage of her pregnancy and other interests involved violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which protects against state action the right to privacy, including a woman's qualified right to terminate her pregnancy. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | If I or she should chance to be Involved in this affair, He trusts to you to set them free, Exactly as we were |
Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams | I don't want to know, I don't want to see, I don't want to hear, he yelled as he ran, "this is not my planet, I didn't choose to be here, I don't want to get involved, just get me out of here, and get me to a party, with people I can relate to! |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There were, it was said, involved in her story, some pecuniary arrangements necessary for a great marriage |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | We are not wholly involved in Nature |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Involved in conscious thought and language. (references) | |
It is also involved in temperature regulation. (references) | ||
Become involved in the health care of your child. (references) | ||
Business | It also is involved in space programs. (references) | |
There are 10 firms involved in this area of insurance. (references) | ||
The ADIA is also involved in the development of the portal. (references) | ||
Children | Dominica | Of these cases, 162 involved sexual abuse. (references) |
Argentina | The children involved usually work in the same institutions as adults. (references) | |
Indonesia | Sixty percent of the children are involved in petty crimes such as theft. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Twelve of the cases involved physical assaults. (references) |
Colombia | AUC leader Carlos Castano denied that the AUC was involved. (references) | |
El Salvador | Police detained 10 former militiamen involved in the demonstration. (references) | |
Discrimination | Hong Kong | Overall complaints to the Equal Opportunities Commission during the year rose 23 percent over 2000. During the year, the Equal Opportunities Commission received 1,181 complaints of sex discrimination, 807 of which involved the allocation of student placements in secondary schools. (references) |
Economic History | Spain | A summary of the steps involved follows. (references) |
Moldova | It involved the "Technovax" company of Greece. (references) | |
Human Rights | Colombia | Those involved denied the charges. (references) |
Latvia | All involved local police officials. (references) | |
Chad | It is unclear if CAR security forces were involved. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Bangladesh | Confusion continues over the overlapping responsibilities of the various central and local government bodies involved in the Hill Tracts. (references) |
Chile | Sixty-seven families accepted economic inducements to move to other land but six families involved continued to object to ENDESA's effort to have them resettled. (references) | |
Thailand | Societal discrimination against hilltribe members, arising from widely held beliefs that they are involved in drug trafficking and environmental degradation, continued. (references) | |
Minorities | Moldova | The individual reportedly was involved with a terrorist organization. (references) |
India | The NCM separate inquiry found evidence suggesting that the Bajrang Dal was involved in the Staines' killings. (references) | |
Spain | A 1999 report by the NGO Movement Against Intolerance estimated that at least 10,000 persons were involved in ultrarightwing groups. (references) | |
Political Economy | Venezuela | The military is involved heavily with public service projects. (references) |
Tajikistan | The soldiers of some of these commanders are involved in crime and corruption. (references) | |
Sudan | No action was taken against the authorities involved in the incident during the year. (references) | |
Political Rights | Lebanon | Officials of various security services personally became involved in promoting candidates who were political allies or relatives. (references) |
Armenia | The Achapniak by-election subsequently was held again--the two candidates involved in the altercation were removed from the ballot--and took place without incident. (references) | |
Morocco | Also in August 2000, the Constitutional Council invalidated an additional by-election held in the Casablanca-Mechouar district in June that allegedly involved vote-buying. (references) | |
Trade | Finland | It is involved in cooperation in the OECD, EU and Berne Union. (references) |
Lebanon | More than 20 funding sources are involved in CDR's reconstruction plan. (references) | |
Mexico | A transferable L.C. is used when two exporters, or an exporter and a middleman are involved. (references) | |
Travel | El Salvador | Buses run throughout the country, but are often targets for crime and involved in accidents. (references) |
Morocco | Moroccan women are becoming more involved in business activities, although not on a large scale. (references) | |
Uae | Travel bans may also be enforced on American citizens involved in financial disputes with a local sponsor or firm. (references) | |
Women | New Zealand | Over 150 cases involved a firearm when breaching protection orders. (references) |
Chile | The courts may order counseling for those involved in intrafamily violence. (references) | |
India | It was found in Assam that 30 percent of rape cases involved girls below 18 years of age. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Cape Verde | In 2000 such cases involved fewer than 30 persons. (references) |
Hong Kong | Of the industrial accidents, 11 involved fatalities. (references) | |
Philippines | Several rescues involved minors working as prostitutes. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Ann Richards | Personally, I like Ken Lay a lot. And I still can't figure out how in God's name he could have been involved in that mess, but he obviously must have been. |
Barbara Walters | Thank heaven. The producers, the associate producers, they're the ones who really are, I think, are the most important. I write, you know, my stuff and I'm very involved in the editing, and I'm very hands-on. But it would not happen without producers. |
Bob Graham | I believe there was evidence that Iran was involved in the shipment of those weapons, but I don't think that was by any means the totality of the concern. |
Cary Goldstein | Right. The will be a civil action filed before the one-year anniversary of Bonny's death. Also, I'm involved in negotiating the visitation for the Bakley family. |
Donald Rumsfeld | That's different. I enjoy being challenged. I enjoy working with wonderful people, and I do. If we were at this point in history, I'm trying to think if I were not involved in any way at all, I would feel that's a shame. |
Joan Lunden | Well, but it's so much more important and involved than that because having experts is not only important for us, it's important for her. |
Rush Limbaugh | Lets just face it, folks, when it comes to things I'm passionately involved with and care deeply about, I'm right! |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | With a portion of them the correspondence of our commanders on the eastern aspect of the South American coast and among the islands of Greece discover how far we have been involved. |
Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | Our own fortunes as a nation are involved whether we would have it so or not. |
Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | Its intricate and involved rules of procedure have become the refuge of both big and little criminals. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | People everywhere are coming to realize that what is involved is material well-being, human dignity, and the right to believe in and worship God. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | We must be careful now and refrain from any steps which would not be useful to the defense of the states involved in the conflict, which could only cause irritation and even serve as a provocation for a fateful step. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | After all, we became involved in the war while my predecessor was in office. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | That policy involved more than one hundred improvements in existing Federal programs, four new Executive Orders and nineteen pieces of urban-oriented legislation. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | I am speaking of a new engagement in the lives of others, a new activism, hands-on and involved, that gets the job done. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | They've done a great deal to highlight the importance of family in our life, and now they're turning their attention to getting more parents involved in their children's learning all the way through school. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Involved" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 67.56% of the time. "Involved" is used about 11,196 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 67.56% | 7,564 | 1,277 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 25.94% | 2,904 | 3,209 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 6.5% | 728 | 9,273 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11,196 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "involved": be involved ♦ be involved in ♦ be involved in politics ♦ be involved with ♦ become involved ♦ bound up involved wrapped up ♦ get involved ♦ get involved in combat ♦ get involved into smth. ♦ get more involved ♦ his honour is involved ♦ involved in debt ♦ involved labyrinthine ♦ involved with ♦ number of R&D personnel involved in the projects funded by international R&D and innovation programmes as a percentage of the total R&D personnel in a region at a given point of time ♦ number of R&D personnel involved in the projects funded by international R&D and innovation programmes in a region at a given point of time ♦ person involved ♦ person involved in politics. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "involved": involved-and. | |
Ending with "involved": non-involved, over-involved. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "involved"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i përfshirë (inclusive), i ngatërruar (embarrassing, embroiled, entangled, haywire, immersed, knotty, labyrinthine, mixed, muddy, tangly, tricky, woozy), i mbështjellur (muffled). (various references) | |
Arabic | مغرم (fond), متورط (embroiled, engaged, entangled, implicated), معني (concerned, interested), مشارك (contributory, entrant, interested, participant). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | неясен (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, blear, bleary, confused, crepuscular, dark, doubtful, dreamy, dusk, fuzzy, hazy, illegible, inarticulate, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indistinct, intangible, inward, loose, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, obscure, pale, recondite, shadowy, soft, transcendental, ulterior, unclear, undecided, unformed, vague, vapory, vapoury, wan, woolly), затруднен финансово, замесен (concerned, connected), забъркан (complex, complicated, embroiled, inextricable, intricate), заплетен (anfractuous, complex, convoluted, inextricable, intricate, involute, knotty, labyrinthine, mazy, sinuous, tangly, tortuous). (various references) | |
Chinese | 紊 (grade, level, rank, step, tangled), 包含 (Contain, Contained, Containing, Encompass, Encompassed, Encompassing, inclusive, Inclusively). (various references) | |
Czech | složitý (complex, complicated, intricate), komplikovaný (complex, complicated, convoluted, elaborate, intricate, many-sided, sophisticated). (various references) | |
Danish | indesluttet bjergart (involved rock), oekonomiske beslutningstagere (business circles, economic agents, persons involved in business activity, transactors), deltagere i partnerskab (those involved in partnership), eksisterende varer er alle varer,som i undersoegelsesperioden eller en tidligere periode er indgaaet i landets oekonomiske kredsloeb,idet de har vaeret genstand for transaktioner som produktion,import,forbrug,konsum eller bruttoinvesteringer (and to(intermediate or final)consumption or gross capital formation, during the current period or a previous one, existing goods are all goods which have entered the country's economic system, through being involved in transactions relating to production or imports), ekstraudgift i forbindelse med olieforsyning (extra cost involved in supplying oil products), en regions økonomiske aktører (agents involved in the economy of a region, those active in the economy of a region), erhvervskredse (business circles, economic agents, persons involved in business activity, socio-professional circles, transactors), forbud,der vedrører de pågældende arten (prohibition affecting the species involved), forsendelse med skade (mail involved in an accident), forsikringsorgan der træder i stedet (insurer entering into the rights of..., insurer involved, insurer substituting for...), fremstille efterligning (to be involved in counterfeiting), deltager i forvaltning af den fælles markedsordning (party involved in management of the COM), medarbejdende kvinder (assistant spouses, assisting wives, women involved in their husbands'professional activity), vaere inddraget i retsforhold (to become involved in legal transactions, to engage in legal transactions), optraede i retsforhold (to become involved in legal transactions, to engage in legal transactions), partnere (those involved in partnership), postforsendelse med skade (mail involved in an accident), praemiereserverne,som skyldes,at forsikringskontrakternes loebetid ikke falder sammen med forsikringsselskabernes regnskabsaar,udgoeres af de dele af praemierne,som betales forud af forsikringstagerne og overfoeres af forsikringsselskaberne til det foelge (consist of those parts of the premiums paid in advance by the insured and carried forward to the following accounting period.They are determined on the basis of the proportion of the risks involved in relation to time for the period remaining to run until, prepayments of premiums, which result from the fact that the duration of insurance contracts does not coincide with the financial year of the insurance enterprises), risici ved søfart (hazards involved in sailing), scintillationstaellere og Geiger-Müller taellere med tyndt vindue er tilstraekkeligt foelsomme til at maale den svage, der er tale om (scintillation and thin-window Geiger-Mueller counters have the required sensitivity to measure the low exposure rate of radiation involved), skadeudsat forsendelse (mail involved in an accident), stedfortrædende forsikringsorgan (insurer entering into the rights of..., insurer involved, insurer substituting for...), tilgodehavender hos joint ventures (the account showing loans to joint ventures in which the business is involved), tykkelsen af det lag,der indeholder soemmene,er nogle centimeter;det omfatter altsaa foruden den meget finkornede randzone ogsaa soejlekrystallisationszonen (and thus both the columnar as well as the very fine-grained surface zone are involved, the thickness of metal containing the solidification contours is of the order of a few centimeters), uddannelsespersonale (staff involved in education), man undersoeger saavel overfoeringsmekanismerne for luftforureningen til planterne som den luftrensende virkning af laeplanter (attention is focused on the mechanisms involved in the transfer ( transfer mechanisms ) of pollutants between air and plants and on the air-cleaning function fulfilled by windscreen plants). (various references) | |
Dutch | ingesloten gesteente (involved rock), hogere kosten van de aardolievoorziening (extra cost involved in supplying oil products), aandacht wordt gewijd aan de door verontreinigers tussen lucht en plant gevolgde overdrachtswegen en aan de luchtzuivering door als windscherm aangeplante gewassen (attention is focused on the mechanisms involved in the transfer ( transfer mechanisms ) of pollutants between air and plants and on the air-cleaning function fulfilled by windscreen plants), bij het beheer van de GMO betrokken instantie (party involved in management of the COM), brievenmaal betrokken bij een ongeval (mail involved in an accident), de dikte van de laag die de stollingscontouren bevat,bedraagt enkele centimeters;zij omvat dan ook zowel de fijnkorrelige randzone als de zone met stengelkristallen (and thus both the columnar as well as the very fine-grained surface zone are involved, the thickness of metal containing the solidification contours is of the order of a few centimeters), de subrubriek netto IMF-positie dient ter afzondering van de vorderingen en verplichtingen van de monetaire autoriteiten die het gevolg zijn van transacties met het IMF in het kader van trekkingen.Deze transacties hebben betrekking op vorderingen die op d (drawings, etc.);the assets involved in such transactions should be treated similarly to transferable sight deposits in foreign currency, repurchases, the sub-heading net position in the IMF is intended to identify those financial assets and liabilities of the monetary authorities which result from transactions with the IMF(subscriptions), deelnemers aan het economische leven in een regio (agents involved in the economy of a region, those active in the economy of a region), economische subjecten (business circles, economic agents, persons involved in business activity, traders, transactors), aan het rechtsverkeer deelnemen (to become involved in legal transactions, to engage in legal transactions), gesubrogeerde verzekeraar (insurer entering into the rights of..., insurer involved, insurer substituting for...), verzekeraar die in de plaats treedt van... (insurer entering into the rights of..., insurer involved, insurer substituting for...), mutualisme is een symbiose, waarbij de samenleving voor beide in nauw contact levende individuen of soorten nuttig of soms zelfs noodzakelijk is (mutualism is a form of symbiosis in which the interspecific mutual interaction is often so close that the survival of one of the partners involved may even depend upon its success), onderwijzend personeel (staff involved in education, teacher, teaching staff), overtreding door nabootsing begaan (to be involved in counterfeiting), partij bij de procedure (party involved in the proceedings), partners (those involved in partnership), risico's die de zeevaart eigen zijn (hazards involved in sailing), scintillatietellers en eindvensterbuizen zijn gevoelig genoeg om de betreffende zwakke straling te meten (scintillation and thin-window Geiger-Mueller counters have the required sensitivity to measure the low exposure rate of radiation involved), verbod t.a.v.de betrokken diersoort (prohibition affecting the species involved), economische subjecten in een regio (agents involved in the economy of a region, those active in the economy of a region). (various references) | |
Finnish | sotkuinen (complicated, intrivate, tangled muddled), sekava (confused, incoherent, muddled, tangled), ongelmallinen (problematic, puzzling), mutkallinen (complicated, intricate). (various references) | |
French | impliqué, embarrassé, contourné, compliqué (intricate, involute), complexe (intricate), associé, accroché, éprisé. (various references) | |
German | verwickelt (complicated, confused, convoluted, embroils, entangled, entangles, foul, implicates, inextricable, intricate, intricately, involves, knotty, tangly), verwickelte (embroiled, implicated, involuted), hineingezogen. (various references) | |
Greek | περίπλοκοσ (complicated, elaborate, snarly, tangly), εμπλεγμένοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעורב (mixed), מסוכסך (embroiled, incited, indented, instigated), מסובך (complex, complicated, intricate, knotty, sophisticated, tangled, twisted). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szóban forgó (implied, in question), eladósodott (indebted), bonyolult (complex, complicated, difficult, elaborate, inextricable, intricate, involute, knotty, mazy, problematic, thorny, tricky), belebonyolódott. (various references) | |
Indonesian | terbelit (twisted), terbawa (because of, brought), terbabit (implicated). (various references) | |
Italian | complicato (complex, complicated, elaborate, intricate, perplexed, sophisticated, tricky), coinvolto (bindweed). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 絡まる (to be entwined, to be involved), 掛かり合う (to be involved in, to have dealings with), 掛かり合う (to be involved in, to have dealings with), 伴う (to accompany, to be accompanied by, to be involved in, to bring with), セタン価 (cetane number, sedan, sex friend, sexual intercourse, someone with whom one is not romantically involved but frequently has sexual relations with anyway), やや上回る (a little more than, bimbo, limp, particle denoting uncertainty or a listing, soft, someone with whom one is not romantically involved but frequently has sexual relations with anyway, tender, way of doing something). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かかりあう (to be involved in, to have dealings with), からまる (to be entwined, to be involved), セックスフレンド (sex friend, someone with whom one is not romantically involved but frequently has sexual relations with anyway), やりとも (someone with whom one is not romantically involved but frequently has sexual relations with anyway), ともなう (to accompany, to be accompanied by, to be involved in, to bring with). (various references) | |
Korean | 연루되는. (various references) | |
Manx | dowin (deeply, deep-rooted, low, low-pitched, penetrating, profound, rapt, rich, secretive, thorough, uncommunicative). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | involveday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | incluído (included), envolvido, enredado (tangly), baralhado (knotty, topsy-turvy). (various references) | |
Romanian | implicat (implicated), vârât, dificil (abstract, awkward, captious, choosy, cross-grained, dainty, delicate, difficult, fastidious, finical, hard, ill, intractable, nice, parlous, qualmish, scabrous, spiny, stiff, tender, thorny, ticklish, tough, troublesome, unyielding), bãgat, amestecat (amalgamate, combined, divers, medley, miscellaneous, mixed, mobbish, motley, promiscuous, scratchy, so so, sundry, varied, various), încurcat (daedal, difficult, embarrassed, foul, intricate, matted, perplexed, perplexedly, puzzling, tangled, tortuous, winding), închis (black, cagey, close, close-mouthed, coop, covered, dark, deep, deeply, dun, pent, red-hot, sad, shut, stuffy, sullen). (various references) | |
Russian | включать вовлеченный, запутанный (anfractuous, complected, complicated, crinkum-crankum, Daedalian, embroiled, entangled, implex, inextricable, knotty, labyrinthine, mazy, perplexed, tangly). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zapetljan (intricate), upetljan (embroiled, entangled, tangly), umešan (sciential). (various references) | |
Spanish | implicado (implicated, implyed). (various references) | |
Swedish | insyltad, delaktig (concerned, participant, sharer). (various references) | |
Turkish | ilişkili (connected, interrelated, related), ilgili (about, anent, companion, concerned, connected, curious, germane, in regard to, interested, pertinent, related, relative), karışmış (afoul, confused, entangled, foul, in disorder, inwrought, mingled, mixed, puzzled), karışık (adulterated, blended, calico, chequered, combined, complicated, composite, compound, confused, deep, disconcerted, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hybrid, inexplicit, inextricable, intricate, involute, kinky, knotted, knotty, mazy, medley, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, obscure, out of square, promiscuous, turbid, unclassified, unsized, woolly, wooly), kapsayan (embracing, including, inclusive), kapılmış (hook on), dalmış (absorbed, engrossed, immersed, intent, lost in, submersed, wrapped, wrapt), bulaşmış (entangled, immersed). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | складний (complex, complicated, composite, compound, decomposite, elaborate, intricate, involute, jointed, mazy, multiplex, operose, profound, tangled, tickle, tricky), заплутаний (complex, complicated, entangled, implicate, inextricable, intricate, knotted, knotty, mazy, muzzy, perplexed, tangled, wandered). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | rắc rối (complex, complicated, involute, perplexed, perplexity, tangly), phức tạp bị mắc míu, bị liên luỵ, bị dính dáng để hết tâm trí vào, bọ dính líu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adhereas, adhereat, adhereatis, adhereatisque, adherebat, adherebit, adherebunt, adherent, adherentes, adherere, adhereret, adheret, adheretis, adheserit, adheserunt, adhesi, adhesit, perplexus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "involved": involvedly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "involved": interinvolved, noninvolved, uninvolved. (additional references) | |
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"Involved" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: envolve, envolved, inolved, insolved, invole, involed, invoved, invovl, ivolve, onvolved. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "involved" (pronounced i'nvÄ"lvd) |
| 5 | -v Ä" l v d | devolved, evolved, revolved. |
| 4 | -Ä" l v d | absolved, dissolved, resolved, solved, unresolved, unsolved. |
| 3 | -l v d | delved, shelved, uninvolved. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-l-n-o-v-v" | |
-1 letter: involve. | |
-2 letters: indole, nevoid. | |
-3 letters: devil, devon, doven, eloin, envoi, indol, levin, lined, lived, liven, loden, loved, novel, oiled, olden, oldie, olein, olive, ovine, video, vined, voile, voled. | |
-4 letters: deil, deli, deni, diel, dine, diol, dive, dole, done, dove, enol, evil, idle, idol, lend, leno, levo, lido, lied, lien, line, lino, lion, live, lode. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-l-n-o-v-v" | |
+1 letter: devolving. | |
+2 letters: involvedly, uninvolved. | |
+3 letters: noninvolved. | |
+5 letters: interinvolved. | |
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