Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
Display options for sense: (gloss) "an example sentence"
Verb
S: (v) involve, affect, regard (connect closely and often incriminatingly) "This new ruling affects your business"
S: (v) involve (engage as a participant) "Don't involve me in your family affairs!"
S: (v) imply, involve (have as a necessary feature) "This decision involves many changes"
S: (v) necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand (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"
S: (v) involve (contain as a part) "Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses"
S: (v) involve (occupy or engage the interest of) "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon"
S: (v) involve (make complex or intricate or complicated) "The situation was rather involved"
Adjective
S: (adj) 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"
S: (adj) 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"
S: (adj) 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"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"
S: (adj) involved (enveloped) "a castle involved in mist"; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"