involved

• "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"

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

Synonyms

• miredentangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire

• "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"

Synonyms

• Byzantinea native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire ; of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it; of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium ; highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
• convolutedrolled longitudinally upon itself; highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
• knottymaking great mental demands; used of old persons or old trees; highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; tangled in knots or snarls
• tangledin a confused mass; highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
• tortuoushighly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; marked by repeated turns and bends; not straightforward

• "a castle involved in mist"
• "the difficulties in which the question is involved"