involve
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
connect closely and often incriminatingly
This new ruling affects your business
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- regard derivation
- involvement derivation
Sense 2 verb
engage as a participant
Don't involve me in your family affairs!
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- participation derivation
- participation derivation
Sense 3 verb
have as a necessary feature
This decision involves many changes
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- entailment derivation
- involvement derivation
Sense 4 verb
require as useful, just, or proper
It takes nerve to do what she did
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 5 verb
contain as a part
Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses
Types & categories
- include hypernym
Sense 6 verb
occupy or engage the interest of
His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon
Types & categories
- engage hypernym
Related & opposite
- interest derivation
Sense 7 verb
make complex or intricate or complicated
The situation was rather involved
Types & categories
- rarify hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | regard |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | involvement |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | concern |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | implicate |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | participation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | participation |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | let in |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | tangle |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | mire |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | entailment |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | involvement |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | feature |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | carry |
| 4 | antonym | Related & opposite | obviate |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | requirement |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | essential |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | need |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | need |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | necessity |
| 4 | verb group | Related & opposite | exact |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | exact |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | govern |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | draw |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | cost |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | cry out for |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | compel |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | include |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | interest |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | engage |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | rarify |