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say it: in-VAHLVD
involved is an adjective meaning "connected by participation or association or use". It is pronounced /ˌɪnˈvɑlvd/ — in-VAHLVD. It carries 5 recorded senses.
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”
entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire
“the difficulties in which the question is involved”
“brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion”
emotionally involved
highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
“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”
“tortuous legal procedures”
“tortuous negotiations lasting for months”
enveloped
“a castle involved in mist”
“the difficulties in which the question is involved”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for involved come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.