From involve + -ed.

• (RP) IPA: /ɪnˈvɒlvd/
• (Standard Southern British) IPA: /ɪnˈvɔlvd/
• (MLE) IPA: /ɪnˈvoːvd/
• (America) IPA: /ɪnˈvɑlvd/

involved

1. Complicated.

   He related an involved story about every ancestor since 1895.

   • 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XLIII, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC ↗:

     Miss Price told him a long, involved story, which made out that Mrs. Otter, a humdrum and respectable little person, had scabrous intrigues.

2. Associated with others, be a participant or make someone be a participant (in a crime, process, etc.)

   He was involved in the project for three years.

   He got involved in a bar fight.

   When the family wrapped up my father's will, no one tried to make me feel involved.

3. Having an affair with someone.

• German: beteiligt, betroffen
• Italian: coinvolto, associato
• Portuguese: envolvido
• Russian: вовлечённый
• Spanish: involucrado

• German: eine Affäre haben
• Italian: implicato, interessato
• Portuguese: envolvido

1. Simple past tense and past participle of involve

   The explanation involved potatoes, squirrels, and race cars.