| verb | connect closely and often incriminatingly “This new ruling affects your business” |
| verb | engage as a participant “Don't involve me in your family affairs!” |
| verb | have as a necessary feature “This decision involves many changes” |
| verb | require as useful, just, or proper “It takes nerve to do what she did” |
| verb | contain as a part “Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses” |
| verb | occupy or engage the interest of “His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon” |
| verb | make complex or intricate or complicated “The situation was rather involved” |
| adjective | connected by participation or association or use “we accomplished nothing, simply because of the large number of people involved” |
| adjective | entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire “the difficulties in which the question is involved” |
| adjective | emotionally involved |
| adjective | highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; - Sir Walter Scott “the Byzantine tax structure” |
| adjective | enveloped “a castle involved in mist” |
| involvement | noun | a connection of inclusion or containment |
| regard | noun | (usually preceded by `in') a detail or point |
| involution | noun | the act of sharing in the activities of a group |
| implication | noun | something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied) |
| necessity | noun | the condition of being essential or indispensable |
| need | noun | anything that is necessary but lacking |
| requirement | noun | required activity |
| demand | noun | required activity |
| knottiness | noun | puzzling complexity |
| tortuousness | noun | puzzling complexity |