Word Meanings - INVOLVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Syn. -- To imply; include; implicate; complicate; entangle; embarrass; overwhelm. -- To Involve,

Additional info about word: INVOLVE

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. Syn. -- To imply; include; implicate; complicate; entangle; embarrass; overwhelm. -- To Involve, Imply. Imply is opposed to express, or set forth; thus, an implied engagement is one fairly to be understood from the words used or the circumstances of the case, though not set forth in form. Involve goes beyond the mere interpretation of things into their necessary relations; and hence, if one thing involves another, it so contains it that the two must go together by an indissoluble connection. War, for example, involves wide spread misery and death; the premises of a syllogism involve the conclusion. (more info) 1. To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine. Some of serpent kind . . . involved Their snaky folds. Milton. 2. To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity. And leave a singèd bottom all involved With stench and smoke. Milton. 3. To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure. "Involved discourses." Locke. 4. To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply. He knows His end with mine involved. Milton. The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction. Tillotson. 5. To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge. The gathering number, as it moves along, Involves a vast involuntary throng. Pope. Earth with hell To mingle and involve. Milton. 6. To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery. 7. To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb. "Involved in a deep study." Sir W. Scott.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INVOLVE)

• Attend
• Listen
• heed
• notice
• observe
• wait on
• serve
• mind
• watch
• accompany
• consort
• follow
• imply
• involve
• Attest
• Vouch
• aver
• assert
• certify
• witness
• vouch for
• affirm
• testify
• evidence
• support
• confirm
• suggest
• prove
• demonstrate
• establish
• bespeak
• Betoken
• Teach
• indicate
• proclaim
• presage
• augur
• portend
• foreshow
• signify
• forebode
• declare
• manifest
• Comprehend
• Comprise
• embody
• grasp
• understand
• conceive
• apprehend
• enclose
• include
• embrace
• Comprise Embrace
• contain
• comprehend

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INVOLVE)

• Exclude
• except
• discard
• bar
• omit
• reject
• Avoid
• abandon
• excommunicate
• blackball
• banish
• exclude
• Drop
• betray
• surrender
• discontinue
• oppose
• discourage
• weaken
• exhaust
• thwart
• discountenance
• disfavor
• subvert
• suppress

Related words: (words related to INVOLVE)

• PROVERBIAL
  1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir
• PROVENTRIULUS
  The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
• EXCEPT
  1. To take or leave out from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. To object to; to protest against. Shak.
• BETOKEN
  1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• TEACHER
  1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• TEACHABLENESS
  Willingness to be taught.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• CONSORTSHIP
  The condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership. Hammond.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• WATCHET
  Pale or light blue. "Watchet mantles." Spenser. Who stares in Germany at watchet eyes Dryden.
• AFFIRMATIVELY
  In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
• CONSORT
  A ship keeping company with another. 3. Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union. "By Heaven's consort." Fuller. "Working in consort." Hare. Take it singly, and is carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest,
• ASSERT
  self, claim, maintain; ad + serere to join or bind together. See 1. To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to
• WATCHDOG
  A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders.
• WATCHHOUSE
  1. A house in which a watch or guard is placed. 2. A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• DISSERVE
  To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm. Have neither served nor disserved the interests of any party. Jer. Taylor. (more info) Etym:
• INEVIDENCE
  Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
• RESERVE
  1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• DESERVEDNESS
  Meritoriousness.
• AVOUCHMENT
  The act of avouching; positive declaration. Milton.