involvedadj.
/ɪnˈvɒlvd/, U.S. /ᵻnˈvɑlvd/, /ᵻnˈvɔlvd/ 1. literal.
a. Curved spirally.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [adjective] > spiral or helical
twine1551
snailing1615
spireda1625
involved1665
spiralled1665
screwlike1675
spiry1677
voluted1801
corkscrew1815
screwed1821
volute1839
spiriform1841
volutiform1843
spiring1871
corkscrewy1886
turbaned1924
spiralized1928
spiralizing1977
1665 G. Havers tr. P. della Valle Trav. E. India 52 Their Beards and Hair they wear long, untrim'd, rudely involv'd.
b. Enfolded, enwrapped.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [adjective] > wrapped > enfolded or enveloped
mantleda1425
encovered1596
enwrapped1598
shrouded1600
enveloped1607
involved?1611
upwrapped1642
hooded1695
ingurgitated1851
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads ii. 179 His sandie confines; whose sides, grone with his inuolued waue.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 809 An engorgement of the involved bowel.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > crookedness > [adjective]
crooked?c1225
sinister?1455
indirect1570
undirect1594
involved1612
obliquous1614
unstraight1650
back-handed1800
tortuous1801
twistical1805
louche1819
hooky-crooky1833
underhand1842
twisty1857
underhanded1864
bent1914
society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [adjective] > not straightforward
crooked?c1225
indirect1570
undirect1594
involved1612
unstraight1650
obliquous1757
tortuous1801
twistical1805
louche1819
hooky-crooky1833
sinuous1850
twisty1905
1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 65 There bee [men] that are in nature faithfull and sinceare, and plaine, and direct, not craftie, and inuolued.
1635 W. Habington Castara (ed. 2) iii. 181 All th' involv'd designements of the wise.
1713 Guardian 1 May 1/1 They are very sullen and involved.
3.
a. Intricate, complicated.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > [adjective]
nice?a1500
plaited1532
intricablea1540
unsimple?1541
entangled1561
intrinsicate1562
Gordian1606
involved1643
complexed1646
contortuplicated1648
complicated1656
puzzled1659
involute1669
complicatea1687
complex1715
woofed1820
snaggled1896
non-transparent1939
complexified1962
1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §9 To pose my apprehension with those involved Ænigmas and riddles of the Trinity. View more context for this quotation
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1750 I. 118 The style of this work [sc. Rambler] has been censured by some shallow criticks as involved and turgid.
1847 J. Yeowell Chron. Anc. Brit. Church ii. 21 The involved language of Gildas..has led to much misapprehension of his meaning.
b. Contained by implication, implicit.
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society > communication > information > hint or covert suggestion > [adjective] > hinted or suggested
shaded1583
blowna1616
suggested1660
alluded1700
intimated1849
hinted1853
involved1864
1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic ii. 40 These Laws of Thought exist there in a latent or involved form.
Derivatives
inˈvolvedly adv. in a way that is involved implicitly.
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society > communication > information > hint or covert suggestion > [adverb]
by indirection1603
involvedly1624
allusively1656
suggestingly1840
hintedly1846
suggestively1859
hintingly1892
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > hidden or indirect meaning > [adverb]
sidelings?a1400
covertlyc1400
impliedlyc1449
by implicationa1575
implicatelya1575
implicatively1579
over the shoulder1596
interpretatively1602
implicitly1610
indirectly1613
insinuatively1617
enfoldedly1624
involvedly1624
tacitly1635
tacidly1640
by interpretation1692
adumbratively1753
inexplicitly1776
interpretively1867
1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere 31 Doctrine..neither expressly nor inuoluedly contained in holy Scripture.
1840 G. S. Faber Primitive Doctr. Regeneration i. ii. 28 A moral change of disposition; and thence, subordinately and involvedly, a federal change of relative condition.
inˈvolvedness n. the fact, state, or quality of being involved.
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the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > fact or action of being concerned with
meddlingc1390
implicationc1430
mellingc1440
intermeddling1531
participation1582
mashing1607
trucka1625
concern1643
involvedness1654
interest1660
involvement1706
business1759
immixture1859
involution1886
a piece (also share) of the action1938
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > [noun]
intricatenessa1586
perplexednessa1586
involution1611
mixture1614
complicateness1656
puzzledness1662
complexedness1690
complexation1707
complexness1727
complexity1790
complication1793
complicacy18..
complicatedness1818
complicity1847
involvedness1867
multiplexity1938
1654 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia: 2nd Pt. x. §1. 193 How shall the mind of man..extricate itself, out of this comprisure and involvedness in the bodies passions and infirmities?
a1691 R. Boyle Free Disc. Customary Swearing (1695) 13 The Involvedness of all men in the Guilt of Swearing.
1867 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Jan. 4 The Indian Statute-book..bids fair to emulate our own in confusion, bulk, and involvedness.
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