Dictionary Definition
involve
Verb
1 connect closely and often incriminatingly;
"This new ruling affects your business" [syn: affect, regard]
2 engage as a participant; "Don't involve me in
your family affairs!"
3 have as a necessary feature or consequence;
entail; "This decision involves many changes" [syn: imply]
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" [syn: necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, call for,
demand] [ant: obviate]
5 contain as a part; "Dinner at Joe's always
involves at least six courses"
6 wrap; "The tower was involved in mist"
7 occupy or engage the interest of; "His story
completely involved me during the entire afternoon"
8 make complex or intricate or complicated; "The
situation was rather involved"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From involvere.Verb
- To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
- To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.
- To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
- To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
- To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
- To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery.
- To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.
- To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times; as, a quantity involved to the third or fourth power.
- Status: involved
Translations
to roll
To envelop completely
- Portuguese: envolver
To complicate or make intricate
To connect with something
To take in
To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass
- Portuguese: envolver
To engage thoroughly
- Portuguese: envolver
(Mathematics): To raise to any assigned power
- Portuguese: elevar
References
Extensive Definition
Involve may refer to the following
organisations:
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
absorb,
absorb the attention, adorn, affect, affect the interest,
allegorize, allude
to, answer to, appertain to, apply to, approve, argue, arrest, assail, associate with, assume, attack, attest, attract, ball up, be indicative
of, be significant of, be symptomatic of, bear on, bear upon,
belong to, bespeak,
betoken, breathe, bring, bring to mind, burden, call for, catch, catch up, catch up in,
censure, characterize, charm, close, compass, compass about, complicate, comprehend, comprise, concern, confound, confuse, connect, connect with, connote, contain, convolute, correspond to,
count in, cover, cramp, criminate, cripple, cry out against, cry
out on, cry shame upon, cumber, deal with, decorate, demonstrate, denominate, denote, differentiate, disclose, display, draw in, elaborate, embarrass, embay, embellish, embody, embosom, embrace, embrangle, embroider, embroil, enchant, enclasp, enclose, encompass, encumber, enfold, engage, engage the attention,
engage the mind, engage the thoughts, engross, engross the mind,
engross the thoughts, enmesh, enrich, ensnarl, entail, entangle, enthrall, entoil, entrammel, entrap, entwine, envelop, environ, enwrap, evidence, evince, excite, excite interest, exercise, exhibit, express, fascinate, festoon, fetter, flourish, foul up, furnish
evidence, gild, give
evidence, give indication of, give token, go around, go round, go
to show, grab, grip, hamper, hamstring, handicap, have, have connection with,
highlight, hint, hobble, hold, hold spellbound, hold the
interest, hypnotize,
identify, illustrate, immerse, impede, implicate, imply, import, impugn, include, incorporate, incriminate, inculpate, indicate, infer, insinuate, interest, intimate, invest, invite, involve in, involve the
interest, knot, lame, lap, lead to, liaise with, lime, link with, load with
ornament, louse up, lumber, manifest, mark, mean, mean to say, mesmerize, mess up, mire, mix up, monopolize, muck up, muddle, necessitate, net, note, number among, obsess, occupy, occupy the attention,
ornament, overcharge, overlay, overload, perplex, pertain to, pique, point indirectly to, point
to, preoccupy, press
down, presume, presuppose, provoke, ramify, ravel, refer to, regard, relate to, require, respect, reveal, saddle with, screw up,
set forth, shackle,
show, show signs of,
signalize, signify, snarl, snarl up, speak for itself,
speak volumes, spellbind, stand for, stimulate, subsume, suck into, suggest, suppose, surround, symptomatize, symptomize, take, take for granted, take in,
take up, tangle, tantalize, tell, tend to show, testify, tickle, tie in with, titillate, toil, touch, touch upon, trammel, treat of, trick out,
varnish, weigh down,
wrap