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involvement - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | involvement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficulty |
| Synonyms: | crisis, embarrassment, entanglement, quandary |
| Main Entry: | involvement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | connection |
| Synonyms: | association, embroilment, engagement, relationship, responsibility |
| Main Entry: | involvement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | engrossment |
| Synonyms: | preoccupation, reflection, study, intentness |
| Main Entry: | activism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | action for change |
| Synonyms: | advocacy, involvement, striking, boycotting, championing, effecting change, influence peddling, logrolling, militancy, moving and shaking, picketing |
| Main Entry: | complexity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | complicatedness |
| Synonyms: | complication, convolution, elaboration, entanglement, intricacy, involvement, ramification, multiplicity |
| Antonyms: | clarity, ease, obvious, simplicity, directness |
| Main Entry: | complicity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conspiracy |
| Synonyms: | agreement, collaboration, collusion, concurrence, confederacy, engineering, guilt, implication, intrigue, involvement, machination, manipulation, partnership, abetment, complot, connivance, guiltiness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, innocence, refusal, noninvolvement |
| Main Entry: | entanglement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | complication, predicament |
| Synonyms: | affair, association, cobweb, complexity, confusion, difficulty, embarrassment, embroilment, imbroglio, intricacy, intrigue, involvement, jumble, knot, liaison, mesh, mess, mix-up, muddle, snare, tangle, toil, trap, web, enmeshment, ensnarement, entrapment, tie-up |
| Antonyms: | simplicity, disentanglement |
| Main Entry: | imbroglio |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misunderstanding; fight |
| Synonyms: | altercation, argument, brawl, broil*, brouhaha*, complexity, complication, dispute, embarrassment, embroilment, entanglement, falling-out*, involvement, miff*, quandary, quarrel, row, run-in*, soap opera*, spat, squabble, bickering, flack, knock-down-drag-out |
| Antonyms: | agreement, peacemaking |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | implication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | association, suggestion |
| Synonyms: | assumption, conclusion, connection, connotation, entanglement, guess, hint, hypothesis, indication, inference, innuendo, intimation, involvement, link, meaning, overtone, presumption, ramification, reference, significance, undertone, union, incrimination, signification |
| Main Entry: | inclusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | addition |
| Synonyms: | admittance, composition, embodiment, formation, incorporation, insertion, involvement, comprisal, embracement, encompassment, subsumption |
| Antonyms: | exclusion, subtraction |
| Main Entry: | love affair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | love relationship |
| Synonyms: | adultery, affair, amour, courtship, dalliance, devotion, entanglement, extracurricular activity*, fling, flirtation, hanky-panky, infidelity, intrigue, involvement, liaison, love, passion, relationship, romance, seduction, thing, tryst, affair of the heart, affaire de coeur, forbidden love, illicit love, ménage à trois, romantic affair, sexual relationship outside of marriage, triangle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | muddle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | confused state |
| Synonyms: | ataxia, awkwardness, botch, chaos, clutter, complexity, complication, confusion, daze, difficulty, dilemma, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disorganization, emergency, encumbrance, fog, foul-up*, hash, haze, intricacy, involvement, jumble, mess, mess and a half, mix-up*, muss*, perplexity, plight, predicament, quandary, rat's nest, screw-up, shambles*, snarl, struggle, tangle, trouble |
| Antonyms: | enlightenment, order, organization |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | web |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | netting |
| Synonyms: | cobweb, complexity, entanglement, fabric, fiber, filigree, gossamer, involvement, labyrinth, lattice, mat, maze, mesh, morass, net, network, plait, screen, snarl, tangle, texture, toil, trellis, warp, weave, wicker, interconnection, interlacing, lacework, matting, meshwork, reticulation, skein, tissue, webbing, weft, woof |
| Main Entry: | concern |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business, responsibility |
| Synonyms: | affair, burden, care, charge, company, corporation, deportment, entanglement, enterprise, establishment, field, firm, house, interest, involvement, job, jungle*, matter, mission, multinational, occupation, organization, outfit, task, thing, transaction, worry, zoo, megacorp, shooting match |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | experience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, action, actuality, background, caution, combat, contact, doing, empiricism, evidence, existence, exposure, familiarity, intimacy, involvement, judgment, know-how*, maturity, observation, participation, patience, perspicacity, practicality, practice, proof, reality, savoir-faire, seasoning, sense, skill, sophistication, strife, struggle, training, trial, understanding, wisdom, forebearance, inwardness, worldliness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, immaturity, inexperience |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | love |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adoration; very strong liking |
| Synonyms: | adulation, affection, allegiance, amity, amour, appreciation, ardor, attachment, case*, crush, delight, devotion, emotion, enchantment, enjoyment, fervor, fidelity, flame, fondness, friendship, hankering, idolatry, inclination, infatuation, involvement, like, lust, partiality, passion, piety, rapture, regard, relish, respect, sentiment, soft spot*, taste, tenderness, weakness, worship, yearning, zeal, amorousness, ardency, cherishing, devotedness, mad for |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | quagmire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad situation |
| Synonyms: | box*, corner*, difficulty, dilemma, entanglement, fix, hole*, imbroglio, impasse, involvement, jam, mire, morass, muddle, pass, pickle*, pinch*, plight, predicament, quandary, scrape, trouble, perplexity |
| Antonyms: | blessing, solution, success |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | absorption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | total attention toward something |
| Synonyms: | concentration, engagement, fascination, hang-up*, involvement, occupation, preoccupation, captivation, engrossment, enthrallment, holding, immersion, intentness, raptness |
| Antonyms: | boredom, distraction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | liability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burden, debt |
| Synonyms: | IOU*, account, bad news*, baggage*, balance, bite*, chance, chit*, contingency, contract, damage, debit, disadvantage, drag*, drawback, due*, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, impediment, inconvenience, indebtedness, involvement, lease, loan, millstone*, minus, misfortune, mortgage, nuisance, obligation, onus, pledge, possibility, remainder, responsibility, tab, arrear, arrearage, indebtment |
| Antonyms: | asset |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | part |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person or group's interest, concern |
| Synonyms: | behalf, bit, business, capacity, cause, charge, duty, faction, function, involvement, office, party, place, responsibility, role, say, share, side, task, work |
| Notes: | a part is any of the components of a whole; a portion is a part allotted to or regarded as belonging to someone; a piece is a part separated from the whole; a division is a part formed by classifying, cutting, partitioning - and so is a section, though it is generally smaller; a segment is a part separated along natural lines of division; a fragment is a small part, usually broken off |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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