involved

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɑlvd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɒlvd/

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• Hyphenation: in‧volved

involved (comparative more involved, superlative most involved)

1. Complicated.

   He related an involved story about every ancestor since 1895.

   • 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, ch. 43

     Miss Price told him a long, involved story, which made out that Mrs. Otter, a humdrum and respectable little person, had scabrous intrigues.

2. Associated with others, be a participant or make someone be a participant (in a crime, process, etc.)

   He was involved in the project for three years.

   He got involved in a bar fight.

   When the family wrapped up my father's will, no one tried to make me feel involved.

3. Having an affair with someone.

• involvedly
• involvedness

involved

1. simple past tense and past participle of involve

   The explanation involved potatoes, squirrels, and race cars.