involved

connected by participation or association or use

• “we accomplished nothing, simply because of the large number of people involved”
• “the problems involved”
• “the involved muscles”
• “I don”
• “;”

entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire

• “the difficulties in which the question is involved”
• “brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion”

emotionally involved

highly involved or intricate

• “the Byzantine tax structure”
• “convoluted legal language”
• “convoluted reasoning”
• “intricate needlework”
• “an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology”
• “the plot was too involved”
• “a knotty problem”

enveloped

• “a castle involved in mist”
• “the difficulties in which the question is involved”