Antonyms for involve
ɪnˈvɒlvin·volve

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1. involveverb

   Synonyms:
   entangle, implicate, complicate, overwhelm, imply, embarrass, include

2. involveverb

   To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

   Synonyms:
   imply, include, entangle, complicate, implicate, overwhelm, embarrass

3. involveverb

   To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.

   Synonyms:
   entangle, overwhelm, complicate, imply, include, implicate, embarrass

4. involveverb

   To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.

   Synonyms:
   entangle, imply, include, embarrass, overwhelm, implicate, complicate

5. involveverb

   To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.

   Synonyms:
   implicate, entangle, imply, embarrass, overwhelm, complicate, include

6. involveverb

   To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.

   Synonyms:
   entangle, overwhelm, embarrass, complicate, imply, include, implicate

7. involveverb

   To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery.

   Synonyms:
   embarrass, overwhelm, entangle, include, implicate, complicate, imply

8. involveverb

   To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.

   Synonyms:
   implicate, embarrass, include, overwhelm, entangle, complicate, imply

9. involveverb

   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.

   Synonyms:
   implicate, embarrass, complicate, include, overwhelm, imply, entangle

10. involveverb

    Status: involved

    Synonyms:
    implicate, complicate, entangle, imply, include, embarrass, overwhelm

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. involve

   To involve (Latin in, in, and volvo, roll) is to roll or wind up with or in so as to combine inextricably or inseparably, or nearly so; as, the nation is involved in war; the bookkeeper's accounts, or the writer's sentences are involved. Involve is a stronger word than implicate, denoting more complete entanglement. As applied to persons, implicate is always used in an unfavorable sense, and involve ordinarily so; but implicate applies only to that which is wrong, while involve is more commonly used of that which is unfortunate; one is implicated in a crime, involved in embarrassments, misfortunes, or perplexities. As regards logical connection that which is included is usually expressly stated; that which is implied is not stated, but is naturally to be inferred; that which is involved is necessarily to be inferred; as, a slate roof is included in the contract; that the roof shall be water-tight is implied; the contrary supposition involves an absurdity. See COMPLEX.

   Antonyms:
   disconnect, disentangle, distinguish, explicate, extricate, remove, separate

   Synonyms:
   complicate, embarrass, embroil, entangle, implicate, imply, include, overwhelm

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1. involve

   Antonyms:
   separate, extricate, disconnect

   Synonyms:
   implicate, confound, mingle, envelop, compromise, include, complicate, entangle

Matched Categories

1. • Complicate
   • Engross
   • Have
   • Include

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. involve, affect, regardverb

   connect closely and often incriminatingly

   "This new ruling affects your business"

   Synonyms:
   bear upon, call for, impress, touch, see, consider, strike, dissemble, sham, take, move, reckon, touch on, imply, pretend, require, affect, necessitate, postulate, demand, impact, ask, bear on, regard, view, need, feign

2. involveverb

   engage as a participant

   "Don't involve me in your family affairs!"

   Synonyms:
   postulate, need, require, take, ask, affect, regard, imply, call for, necessitate, demand

3. imply, involveverb

   have as a necessary feature

   "This decision involves many changes"

   Synonyms:
   entail, call for, demand, mean, need, postulate, imply, require, affect, necessitate, inculpate, incriminate, ask, regard, connote, take

4. necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demandverb

   require as useful, just, or proper

   "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"

   Synonyms:
   require, read, pick up, occupy, subscribe to, withdraw, lead, ingest, inquire, take on, carry, deal, assume, have, hold, choose, study, learn, fill, necessitate, bespeak, invite, imply, consume, drive, hire, posit, consider, need, rent, pick out, collect, quest, contract, adopt, film, remove, demand, gather up, lease, take aim, want, take up, train, strike, use up, select, take, engage, make, claim, regard, enquire, request, get hold of, exact, take away, pack, call for, affect, expect, bring, command, submit, convey, shoot, aim, direct, contend, charter, get, contain, take in, subscribe, acquire, look at, postulate, accept, guide, admit, ask, conduct

5. involveverb

   contain as a part

   "Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses"

   Synonyms:
   postulate, need, require, take, ask, affect, regard, imply, call for, necessitate, demand

6. involveverb

   occupy or engage the interest of

   "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon"

   Synonyms:
   postulate, need, require, take, ask, affect, regard, imply, call for, necessitate, demand

7. involveverb

   make complex or intricate or complicated

   "The situation was rather involved"

   Synonyms:
   postulate, need, require, take, ask, affect, regard, imply, call for, necessitate, demand

How to use involve in a sentence?

1. Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond:

   We are ready to engage with anyone who is willing to talk about what that political transition in Syria might look like, but we are very clear from our point of view it must involve, at some point, the departure of Bashar al-Assad.

2. Chief Executive Hunter Harrison:

   It's going to happen, but it's not going to involve us, not any time soon, nobody wants to do a deal.

3. Christopher Grayling:

   There are different opinions in the party. Everyone has to go out of their way to make sure that the debate within the Conservative Party is a constructive one, an amicable one and one that doesn't involve attacks on each other, and then from a Conservative point of view after the event we've really got to make sure that when the result comes in, we come together, we heal the party, we move beyond the discussions at the moment and we win in 2020.

4. Chuck Wexler:

   I think part of it is some reality testing, people are saying look, we want to change the police, but you know we also got a violent crime issue, we have a domestic violence issue... then there's a need to reform American police departments. I think you can do that, but I think what people are saying is, let's do it in a responsible way, let's involve the community, let's educate the police, let's hire better, let's train better, let's supervise better, but at the same time you've got a significant crime issue and you can't ignore that.

5. Giancarlo Caselli:

   Mafiosi do not operate in a vacuum. They are inside, intertwined with a system of relationships, of complicities, without which they could not carry out their criminal activities, without which they could not remain fugitives, they are in relationships that involve professionals, entrepreneurs, public administrators, politicians, individuals who flank their organization and form the so-called Mafia bourgeoisie, or gray zone.

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