involved

/in'vɔlvd/

Thân thiện

The project became too involved for a single person to manage.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Complex, intricate, or complicated: Describes something that is difficult to understand because it has many interconnected parts or details.
   • Connected by participation or association: Describes a person or thing that is connected to a situation, event, or activity, often as a participant.
   • Emotionally committed or engaged: Describes a state of being deeply interested, concerned, or emotionally connected to someone or something.

Usage Examples

• Complex/Intricate:
  • The instructions were so involved that I couldn't assemble the furniture.
  • He gave an involved explanation for his absence.
• Connected by Participation:
  • The police interviewed everyone involved in the incident.
  • Please send the report to all involved parties.
• Emotionally Committed:
  • She is deeply involved in the charity's work.
  • They became emotionally involved very quickly.

Advanced Usage

• "to be/become/get involved in/with": To participate in, be connected to, or become entangled in a situation.
  • He doesn't want to get involved in office politics.
  • She is involved with several community projects.
• "involved in doing something": Engaged in an activity.
  • The company is involved in developing new software.

Variants and Related Words

• Involve (verb): To include or affect someone or something; to make something necessary as a part or result.
  • The job involves a lot of travel.
• Involvement (noun): The act or state of being involved.
  • Her involvement in the project was crucial to its success.
• Uninvolved (adjective): Not involved; not connected or concerned.
  • He remained an uninvolved observer.

Synonyms

• Complex: Complicated, intricate, convoluted.
• Associated: Connected, implicated, participating.
• Engaged: Committed, absorbed, engrossed.

Related Phrases

• "Involved with someone": Having a romantic or close personal relationship with someone.
  • He is involved with a colleague from work.
• "Financially involved": Having a monetary stake or connection.
  • The bank is financially involved in the construction project.

Related Idioms

• "Up to one's neck involved": Deeply involved in a difficult situation.
  • After guaranteeing the loan, he was up to his neck involved when the business failed.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. enveloped
   • a castle involved in mist
   • the difficulties in which the question is involved
2. 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- Sir Walter Scott
   • tortuous legal procedures
   • tortuous negotiations lasting for months
3. emotionally involved
4. entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire
   • the difficulties in which the question is involved
   • brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion
5. 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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• Byzantine
• convoluted
• knotty
• tangled
• tortuous
• mired