| 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" |
| pagan | | |
| n. (person) | 1. gentile, heathen, infidel, pagan | a person who does not acknowledge your god. |
| ~ nonreligious person | a person who does not manifest devotion to a deity. |
| ~ paynim | a heathen; a person who is not a Christian (especially a Muslim). |
| ~ idol worshiper, idolater, idoliser, idolizer | a person who worships idols. |
| n. (person) | 2. pagan | a person who follows a polytheistic or pre-Christian religion (not a Christian or Muslim or Jew). |
| ~ religious person | a person who manifests devotion to a deity. |
| ~ wiccan, witch | a believer in Wicca. |
| n. (person) | 3. hedonist, pagan, pleasure seeker | someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures. |
| ~ sensualist | a person who enjoys sensuality. |
| ~ corinthian, man-about-town, playboy | a man devoted to the pursuit of pleasure. |
| adj. | 4. ethnic, heathen, heathenish, pagan | not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam. |
| ~ irreligious | hostile or indifferent to religion. |
| involve | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. affect, involve, regard | connect closely and often incriminatingly.; "This new ruling affects your business" |
| ~ bear on, concern, have-to doe with, pertain, come to, refer, relate, touch on, touch | be relevant to.; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments" |
| ~ implicate | bring into intimate and incriminating connection.; "He is implicated in the scheme to defraud the government" |
| v. (stative) | 2. involve | engage as a participant.; "Don't involve me in your family affairs!" |
| ~ let in, admit, include | allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of.; "admit someone to the profession"; "She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar" |
| ~ drag in, embroil, sweep up, tangle, drag, sweep | force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action.; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business" |
| ~ entangle, mire | entrap.; "Our people should not be mired in the past" |
| v. (stative) | 3. imply, involve | have as a necessary feature.; "This decision involves many changes" |
| ~ feature, have | have as a feature.; "This restaurant features the most famous chefs in France" |
| ~ carry | be necessarily associated with or result in or involve.; "This crime carries a penalty of five years in prison" |
| v. (stative) | 4. ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take | require as useful, just, or proper.; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent" |
| ~ exact, claim, take | take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs.; "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard work took its toll on her" |
| ~ exact, claim, take | take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs.; "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard work took its toll on her" |
| ~ govern | require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood.; "most transitive verbs govern the accusative case in German" |
| ~ draw | require a specified depth for floating.; "This boat draws 70 inches" |
| ~ cost | require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice.; "This mistake cost him his job" |
| ~ cry for, cry out for | need badly or desperately.; "This question cries out for an answer" |
| ~ compel | necessitate or exact.; "the water shortage compels conservation" |
| v. (stative) | 5. involve | contain as a part.; "Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses" |
| ~ include | have as a part, be made up out of.; "The list includes the names of many famous writers" |
| v. (cognition) | 6. involve | occupy or engage the interest of.; "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon" |
| ~ engage, engross, occupy, absorb | consume all of one's attention or time.; "Her interest in butterflies absorbs her completely" |
| v. (change) | 7. involve | make complex or intricate or complicated.; "The situation was rather involved" |
| ~ rarify, complicate, refine, elaborate | make more complex, intricate, or richer.; "refine a design or pattern" |
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