| involved | | |
| adj. | 1. involved | 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" |
| ~ participating, active | taking part in an activity.; "an active member of the club"; "he was politically active"; "the participating organizations" |
| ~ caught up | having become involved involuntarily.; "caught up in the excitement of the crowd"; "caught up in the scandal" |
| ~ concerned, interested | involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in.; "a memorandum to those concerned"; "an enterprise in which three men are concerned"; "factors concerned in the rise and fall of epidemics"; "the interested parties met to discuss the business" |
| ~ embroiled, entangled | deeply involved especially in something complicated.; "embroiled in the conflict"; "felt unwilling entangled in their affairs" |
| ~ engaged | involved in military hostilities.; "the desperately engaged ships continued the fight" |
| ~ implicated, concerned | culpably involved.; "all those concerned in the bribery case have been identified"; "named three officials implicated in the plot"; "an innocent person implicated by circumstances in a crime" |
| ~ neck-deep, up to her neck, up to his neck, up to my neck, up to our necks, up to their necks, up to your neck | deeply involved.; "neck-deep in work"; "up to their necks in debt" |
| adj. | 2. involved, mired | entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire.; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"; "brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion" |
| ~ encumbered | loaded to excess or impeded by a heavy load.; "a summer resort...encumbered with great clapboard-and-stucco hotels"; "a hiker encumbered with a heavy backpack"; "an encumbered estate" |
| adj. | 3. involved | emotionally involved. |
| ~ committed, attached | associated in an exclusive sexual relationship. |
| adj. | 4. byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous | 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" |
| ~ complex | complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts.; "a complex set of variations based on a simple folk melody"; "a complex mass of diverse laws and customs" |
| adj. | 5. involved | enveloped.; "a castle involved in mist"; "the difficulties in which the question is involved" |
| ~ enclosed | closed in or surrounded or included within.; "an enclosed porch"; "an enclosed yard"; "the enclosed check is to cover shipping and handling" |
| relate | | |
| v. (cognition) | 1. associate, colligate, connect, link, link up, relate, tie in | make a logical or causal connection.; "I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind"; "colligate these facts"; "I cannot relate these events at all" |
| ~ remember | exercise, or have the power of, memory.; "After the shelling, many people lost the ability to remember"; "some remember better than others" |
| ~ cerebrate, cogitate, think | use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments.; "I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere" |
| ~ interrelate | place into a mutual relationship.; "I cannot interrelate these two events" |
| ~ correlate | bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation.; "I cannot correlate these two pieces of information" |
| ~ identify | conceive of as united or associated.; "Sex activity is closely identified with the hypothalamus" |
| ~ free-associate | associate freely.; "Let's associate freely to bring up old memories" |
| ~ have in mind, think of, mean | intend to refer to.; "I'm thinking of good food when I talk about France"; "Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!" |
| v. (stative) | 2. bear on, come to, concern, have-to doe with, pertain, refer, relate, touch, touch on | be relevant to.; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments" |
| ~ allude, advert, touch | make a more or less disguised reference to.; "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it" |
| ~ center, center on, concentrate on, focus on, revolve about, revolve around | center upon.; "Her entire attention centered on her children"; "Our day revolved around our work" |
| ~ go for, apply, hold | be pertinent or relevant or applicable.; "The same laws apply to you!"; "This theory holds for all irrational numbers"; "The same rules go for everyone" |
| ~ involve, affect, regard | connect closely and often incriminatingly.; "This new ruling affects your business" |
| ~ matter to, interest | be of importance or consequence.; "This matters to me!" |
| v. (communication) | 3. relate | give an account of.; "The witness related the events" |
| ~ recount, narrate, tell, recite | narrate or give a detailed account of.; "Tell what happened"; "The father told a story to his child" |
| v. (stative) | 4. interrelate, relate | be in a relationship with.; "How are these two observations related?" |
| ~ interrelate | place into a mutual relationship.; "I cannot interrelate these two events" |
| ~ predicate | make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition.; "The predicate `dog' is predicated of the subject `Fido' in the sentence `Fido is a dog'" |
| ~ tutor | act as a guardian to someone. |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| ~ tie in | be in connection with something relevant.; "This ties in closely with his earlier remarks" |
| v. (social) | 5. relate | have or establish a relationship to.; "She relates well to her peers" |
| ~ harmonise, harmonize | bring (several things) into consonance or relate harmoniously.; "harmonize the different interests" |
| ~ oblige, obligate, bind, hold | bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted.; "He's held by a contract"; "I'll hold you by your promise" |
| ~ interact | act together or towards others or with others.; "He should interact more with his colleagues" |
| ~ connect | establish a rapport or relationship.; "The President of this university really connects with the faculty" |
| ~ disrespect | show a lack of respect for. |
| ~ mesh | work together in harmony. |
| ~ take back | resume a relationship with someone after an interruption, as in a wife taking back her husband. |
| ~ get along with, get on, get on with, get along | have smooth relations.; "My boss and I get along very well" |
| ~ bind, bond, attach, tie | create social or emotional ties.; "The grandparents want to bond with the child" |
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