单词 | involved |
释义 | involved (once / 143 pages) 1adj 2adj Being involved means being a part of something or associated with it. If you volunteer on a team to clean up the playground, you're involved in making it a safer and more fun place for kids to play. Involved is an adjective with many different uses. It can describe something difficult or complicated, as in "really involved instructions for putting together a plane model," or it describes relationships and partnerships, like when you’re involved with someone in a serious dating relationship or are involved in helping out as a tutor after school. You can be involved in more negative situations, too, as when a country is involved in spying on another or a group is involved in plotting a crime. WORD FAMILYinvolved: involvedly, self-involved, uninvolved+/disinvolve: disinvolved, disinvolving/involution: involutions/involve: disinvolve, involution, involved, involvement, involves, involving/involvement: involvements, non-involvement USAGE EXAMPLESKaren is hypercritical of the school’s teachers, the curriculum, the kids and the other parents, either because they’re absent or overly involved. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Donelan said her department was not involved in the ejection. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) “We’ve been privy to the thinking and the analysis and the data involved at a very deep level,” Desch said. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1adj 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 Syn|Ant active, participating taking part in an activity caught uphaving become involved involuntarily concerned, interestedinvolved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in embroiled, entangleddeeply involved especially in something complicated engagedinvolved in military hostilities concerned, implicatedculpably involved 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 neckdeeply involved uninvolved not involved unconcernednot occupied or engaged with 2adj emotionally involved Syn attached, committed associated in an exclusive sexual relationship 3adj enveloped a castle involved in mist the difficulties in which the question is involved Syn enclosed closed in or surrounded or included within 4adj entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire 2the difficulties in which the question is involved Syn mired encumbered loaded to excess or impeded by a heavy load adj highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious the plot was too involved Syn Byzantine, convoluted, knotty, tangled, tortuous complex complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts |
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