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involved
adjective
1 involved
Connected by participation or association or use.
Roget 571:
obscure
etc.
n.;
crabbed,
involved,
confused.
Roget 804:
poor,
indigent;
poverty-stricken;
badly off,
poorly off,
ill off;
poor as a rat,
poor as a church mouse,
poor as a Job;
fortuneless†,
dowerless†,
moneyless†,
penniless;
unportioned†,
unmoneyed†;
impecunious;
out of money,
out of cash,
short of money,
short of cash;
without a rap,
not worth a rap
etc.
(money)
800;
qui n'a pas le sou [Fr.],
out of pocket,
hard up;
out at elbows,
out at heels;
seedy,
bare-footed;
beggarly,
beggared;
destitute;
fleeced,
stripped;
bereft,
bereaved;
reduced;
homeless.
in want
etc.
n.;
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
etc.
(in debt)
806;
insolvent
etc.
(not paying)
808.
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Roget 533:
secret
etc.
(concealed)
528;
involved
&c.,
248;
labyrinthine,
labyrinthian†,
mazy.
confidential;
top secret.
Roget 806:
indebted;
liable,
chargeable,
answerable for.
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
etc.
(not paying)
808;
minus,
out of pocket.
unpaid;
unrequited,
unrewarded;
owing,
due,
in arrear†,
outstanding;
past due.
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2 involved
Entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire:
— The difficulties in which the question is involved.
synonym: mired.
3 involved
4 involved
Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious:
— The plot was too involved.
synonyms: Byzantine, convoluted, knotty, tangled, tortuous.
Roget 248:
convoluted;
winding,
twisted
etc.
v.;
tortile†,
tortive†;
wavy;
undated,
undulatory;
circling,
snaky,
snake-like,
serpentine;
serpent,
anguill†,
vermiform;
vermicular;
mazy,
tortuous,
sinuous,
flexuous,
anfractuous†,
reclivate†,
rivulose†,
scolecoid†;
sigmoid,
sigmoidal [Geom.];
spiriferous†,
spiroid†;
involved,
intricate,
complicated,
perplexed;
labyrinth,
labyrinthic†,
labyrinthian†,
labyrinthine;
peristaltic;
daedalian†;
kinky,
knotted.
wreathy†,
frizzly,
crepe,
buckled;
raveled
etc.
(in disorder)
59.
spiral,
coiled,
helical;
cochleate,
cochleous;
screw-shaped;
turbinated,
turbiniform†.
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Roget 59a:
gnarled,
knarled†.
complex,
complexed;
intricate,
complicated,
perplexed,
involved,
raveled,
entangled,
knotted,
tangled,
inextricable;
irreducible.
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5 involved
Moby thesaurus: Byzantine, a party to, absorbed, absorbed in, accessory, accused, active, affected, affiliate, affiliated, allied, arraignable, arraigned, associate, associated, assumed, at fault, balled up, biased, blamed, bound, bound up with, bracketed, burdened with debt, buried in, caught up in, censurable, charged, cited, collateral, complex, complicated, comprehended, comprised, concerned, confounded, confused, confusing, conjugate, connected, contemplating, contemplative, convoluted, correlated, coupled, covered, crabbed, criminal, culpable, daedal, deep in debt, denounced, devious, devoted, devoted to, elaborate, embarrassed, embraced, embrangled, encompassed, encumbered, engaged, engrossed, engrossed in, enmeshed, entangled, envisaged, faulty, fouled up, gordian, guilty, hinted, immersed in, impeachable, impeached, implicated, implied, impugned, in complicity, in debt, in difficulties, in embarrassed circumstances, in hock, in the hole, in the red, included, incriminated, inculpated, indebted, indicated, indictable, indicted, inferred, influenced, intent, intent on, interested, interlinked, interlocked, interrelated, intimated, intricate, involuted, joined, knotted, knotty, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, linked, lost in, loused up, many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, meant, meditating, meditative, messed up, mixed up, monomaniacal, monopolized, mortgaged, mucked up, muddled, multifarious, obsessed, occupied, of that ilk, of that kind, one-sided, parallel, partaking, partial, participant, participating, participative, participatory, partisan, peccant, perplexed, plunged in debt, preoccupied, presumed, presupposed, ramified, related, reprehensible, reproachable, reproached, reprovable, roundabout, screwed up, sharing, single-minded, snarled, sophisticated, spliced, studious, studying, submerged in, subtle, suggested, supposed, swayed, swept up, taken up with, tangled, tangly, tasked, taxed, tied, tied up, to blame, tortuous, totally absorbed, twinned, twisted, under attack, under fire, undetached, undispassionate, unneutral, warped, wed, wedded, wrapped in, wrapped up in, yoked ... show more.
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