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involved

Syllables: in·volvedUK/ɪnˈvɒlvd/

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British/ɪnˈvɔlvd/

involved adjective: complicated. Also the simple past and past participle of involve.

Adjective

involved (comparative more involved, superlative most involved)

  1. Complicated.
    • He related an involved story about every ancestor since 1895.
    • Miss Price told him a long, involved story, which made out that Mrs. Otter, a humdrum and respectable little person, had scabrous intrigues.1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XLIII, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC
  2. Associated with others, be a participant or make someone be a participant (in a crime, process, etc.)
    • The people involved in the project for three years.
    • He got/was involved in a bar fight.
  3. Having an affair with someone.
    • She has been happily involved with the same woman for almost three years. During that time, they have grown together, dealt well with their problems and have worked consistently for a loving and trusting relationship.1980 December 6, Cindy Rizzo, “Jewish, Lesbian, Feminist, Psychologist, Author—All of the above and more”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 20, page 8

Also used as

involved is also the simple past and past participle of involve.

involved meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Tagalog and Arabic

involved in Tamil

ஈடுபடுத்தப்பட்டது

involved in Bengali

জড়িত

involved in Tagalog

associated with others, be or be made a participant
sangkot

involved in Arabic

associated with others, be or be made a participant
مُتَوَرِّط mutawarriṭ

Examples of involved in a sentence

  • When the family wrapped up my father's will, no one tried to make me feel involved.
  • E-commerce has turned even the laying of a floor into a fiendishly involved business.2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:

All 40 example sentences with involved

Forms of involved

comparativemore involved
superlativemost involved

Origin of involved

From involve + -ed.

Words formed from involved

Phrases with involved

Questions about involved

What does involved mean?
Involved means complicated.
What is involved in Tamil?
Involved in Tamil is ஈடுபடுத்தப்பட்டது. See Involved meaning in Tamil.
How do you use involved in a sentence?
When the family wrapped up my father's will, no one tried to make me feel involved.
What part of speech is involved?
Involved is an adjective.
How do you pronounce involved?
Involved is pronounced /ɪnˈvɒlvd/ (UK).

Words near involved in the dictionary

  1. involutivity
  2. involutorial
  3. involutories
  4. involutory
  5. involve
  6. involved
  7. involvedly
  8. involvedness
  9. involvedst
  10. involvement
  11. involvements

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Adapted from Wiktionary: involved (page history and authors); involved (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); involved (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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