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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
involved
1. connected by participation or association or use (Freq. 23)
- 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
• Ant:
uninvolved
• Similar to:
active, participating, caught up, concerned, interested,
embroiled, entangled, engaged, implicated, neck-deep, up to my neck,
up to your neck, up to her neck, up to his neck, up to our necks, up to their necks
2. entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire (Freq. 3)
- the difficulties in which the question is involved
- brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion
• Syn:
mired
• Similar to:
encumbered
3. emotionally involved (Freq. 1)
• Similar to:
attached, committed
4. highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
- the Byzantine tax structure
- Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship
- convoluted legal language
- convoluted reasoning
- 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
• Syn:
Byzantine, convoluted, knotty, tangled, tortuous
• Similar to:
complex
• Derivationally related forms:
tortuousness (for: tortuous), knottiness (for: knotty)
5. enveloped
- a castle involved in mist
- the difficulties in which the question is involved
• Similar to:
enclosed
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