INVOLVED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does involved mean? 

• INVOLVED (adjective)
  The adjective INVOLVED has 5 senses:

1. connected by participation or association or use

2. entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire

3. emotionally involved

4. highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

5. enveloped

  Familiarity information: INVOLVED used as an adjective is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INVOLVED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Connected by participation or association or use

Context example:

everyone involved in the bribery case has been identified

Similar:

active; participating (taking part in an activity)

caught up (having become involved involuntarily)

concerned; interested (involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in)

embroiled; entangled (deeply involved especially in something complicated)

engaged (involved in military hostilities)

concerned; implicated (culpably involved)

neck-deep; up to her neck; up to his neck; up to my neck; up to our necks; up to their necks; up to your neck (deeply involved)

Antonym:

uninvolved (not involved)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire

Synonyms:

involved; mired

Context example:

brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion

Similar:

encumbered (loaded to excess or impeded by a heavy load)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Emotionally involved

Similar:

attached; committed (associated in an exclusive sexual relationship)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

Synonyms:

Byzantine; convoluted; involved; knotty; tangled; tortuous

Context example:

tortuous negotiations lasting for months

Similar:

complex (complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Enveloped

Context example:

the difficulties in which the question is involved

Similar:

enclosed (closed in or surrounded or included within)

 Context examples 

This allele, which encodes tyrosine-protein kinase ABL2 protein, is involved in signal transduction.

(ABL2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A test used to detect some types of hearing loss, such as hearing loss caused by injury or tumors that affect nerves involved in hearing.

(ABR test, NCI Dictionary)

With Uranus involved, the planet of all things unexpected, it’s hard to know from where your luck will emanate.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This allele, which encodes multidrug resistance-associated protein 4, is involved in ATP hydrolysis, anion transport and platelet activation.

(ABCC4 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Such, in a few words, my dear boy, is the history of this terrible business in which I was involved.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He knew that I would do what I said—that his own fate was involved in mine.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This gene is involved in lipid metabolism.

(ACADM Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in lipid oxidation.

(Medium-Chain Specific Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase, Mitochondrial, NCI Thesaurus)

As usual, I had underrated the amount of work involved in this portion of the task, and two long days were necessary to complete it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But now entered Hans, and she saw that his sanity and his salvation were involved.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)