involved

adj. included; concerned with, entangled; engaged, engrossed; complicated; incriminated, connected with

v. include; cause to be concerned with, entangle; engage, engross; complicate; incriminate, cause to be connected with

The Involved are a subset of galactic societies that exist in the Culture novels of Iain M. Banks.
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Adjective
1. 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"
(antonym) uninvolved
(similar) active, participating
2. entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"; "brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion"
(synonym) mired
(similar) encumbered
3. emotionally involved
(synonym) involved with(p)
(similar) attached, committed
4. highly involved or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "intricate needlework"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"; "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"
(synonym) Byzantine, convoluted, intricate, knotty, labyrinthine, tangled, tortuous
(similar) complex
5. enveloped; "a castle involved in mist"; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"
(similar) enclosed

Verb
1. connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business"
(synonym) affect, regard
(hypernym) refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch, touch on
(hyponym) implicate
(derivation) involvement
2. engage as a participant; "Don't involve me in your family affairs!"
(hypernym) admit, let in, include
(hyponym) embroil, tangle, sweep, sweep up, drag, drag in
(derivation) engagement, participation, involvement, involution
3. have as a necessary feature or consequence; entail; "This decision involves many changes"
(synonym) imply
(hypernym) necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, call for, demand
(hyponym) carry
(derivation) involvement
4. 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 postulates a patient's consent"
(synonym) necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, call for, demand
(hyponym) claim, take, exact
(verb-group) claim, take, exact
5. contain as a part; "Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses"
(hypernym) include
6. wrap; "The tower was involved in mist"
(hypernym) envelop, enfold, enwrap, wrap, enclose
(derivation) involution, enfolding
7. occupy or engage the interest of; "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon"
(hypernym) absorb, engross, engage, occupy
(derivation) interest, involvement
8. make complex or intricate or complicated; "The situation was rather involved"
(hypernym) complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate

(imp. & p. p.)
of Involve
  

(a.)
Same as Involute.
  

Synonyms and related words:
Byzantine, a party to, absorbed, absorbed in, accessory, accused, active, affected, affiliate, affiliated, allied, arraignable, arraigned, associate, associated, assumed, at fault, balled up, biased, blamed, bound, bound up with, bracketed, burdened with debt, buried in, caught up in, censurable, charged, cited, collateral, complex, complicated, comprehended, comprised, concerned, confounded, confused, confusing, conjugate, connected, contemplating, contemplative, convoluted, correlated, coupled, covered, crabbed, criminal, culpable, daedal, deep in debt, denounced, devious, devoted, devoted to, elaborate, embarrassed, embraced, embrangled, encompassed, encumbered, engaged, engrossed, engrossed in, enmeshed, entangled, envisaged, faulty, fouled up, gordian, guilty, hinted, immersed in, impeachable, impeached, implicated, implied, impugned, in complicity, in debt, in difficulties, in embarrassed circumstances, in hock, in the hole, in the red, included, incriminated, inculpated, indebted, indicated, indictable, indicted, inferred, influenced, intent, intent on, interested, interlinked, interlocked, interrelated, intimated, intricate, involuted, joined, knotted, knotty, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, linked, lost in, loused up, many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, meant, meditating, meditative, messed up, mixed up, monomaniacal, monopolized, mortgaged, mucked up, muddled, multifarious, obsessed, occupied, of that ilk, of that kind, one-sided, parallel, partaking, partial, participant, participating, participative, participatory, partisan, peccant, perplexed, plunged in debt, preoccupied, presumed, presupposed, ramified, related, reprehensible, reproachable, reproached, reprovable, roundabout, screwed up, sharing, single-minded, snarled, sophisticated, spliced, studious, studying, submerged in, subtle, suggested, supposed, swayed, swept up, taken up with, tangled, tangly, tasked, taxed, tied, tied up, to blame, tortuous, totally absorbed, twinned, twisted, under attack, under fire, undetached, undispassionate, unneutral, warped, wed, wedded, wrapped in, wrapped up in, yoked