Qualities
Synonyms for involved
Synonyms for involved: tangled and mired. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for involved
- tangledadjective, in the sense "highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious"
- miredadjective, in the sense "entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire"
Each of these belongs to a different sense of involved, which is why the meaning beside them changes down the list.
highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
The plot was too involved.
The true synonym
tangled
Same sentence, swapped: The plot was too tangled.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- mired
- interested
- guilty
entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire
The difficulties in which the question is involved.
The true synonym
mired
Same sentence, swapped: The difficulties in which the question is mired.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where involved stands in the sentence above.
- interested
- guilty
- criminal
Where involved turns up in the game
involved is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where involved is the trap
- guiltyadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is shamed, in the sense "showing a sense of guilt", so involved is there to be ruled out.
- supposedadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is hypothetical, in the sense "based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence", and involved is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play involved
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so involved reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from qualities at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. involved carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.