Textual thesaurus for "involved"

(adj) mired

entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire

the difficulties in which the question is involved; brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion

(adj) convoluted, Byzantine, knotty, tortuous, tangled

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