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Embroiled vs Involved - What's the difference?

embroiled | involved |

As verbs the difference between embroiled and involved

is that embroiled is past tense of embroil while involved is past tense of involve.

As an adjective involved is

complicated.

embroiled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (embroil)

    • embroil

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To draw into a situation; to cause to be involved.
    • Avoid him. He will embroil you in his fights.
  • * Dryden
    • the royal house embroiled in civil war
  • To implicate in confusion; to complicate; to jumble.
  • * Addison
    • The Christian antiquities at Rome are so embroiled with fable and legend.

    involved

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Complicated.
    • He related an involved story about every ancestor since 1895.
  • * 1915 ,
    • Miss Price told him a long, involved story, which made out that Mrs. Otter, a humdrum and respectable little person, had scabrous intrigues.
  • Associated with others, be a participant or make someone be a participant (in a crime, process, etc.)
    • He was involved in the project for three years.
    He got involved in a bar fight.
    When the family wrapped up my father's will, no one tried to make me feel involved .
  • Having an affair with someone.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (involve)
    • The explanation involved potatoes, squirrels, and race cars.