involved

involve +‎ -ed

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɑlvd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɒlvd/

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• Hyphenation: in‧volved

involved (comparative more involved, superlative most involved)

1. Complicated.

   He related an involved story about every ancestor since 1895.

   • 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XLIII, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:

     Miss Price told him a long, involved story, which made out that Mrs. Otter, a humdrum and respectable little person, had scabrous intrigues.

   • 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian‎:

     E-commerce has turned even the laying of a floor into a fiendishly involved business.

2. Associated with others, be a participant or make someone be a participant (in a crime, process, etc.)

   He was involved in the project for three years.

   He got involved in a bar fight.

   When the family wrapped up my father's will, no one tried to make me feel involved.

3. Having an affair with someone.

involved

1. simple past tense and past participle of involve

   The explanation involved potatoes, squirrels, and race cars.