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in: I didn't know that Annette was involved. Are you involved
in that murder investigation?
involved adj. 1 implicated, concerned, affected, interested, active:
The public enquiry was attended by all involved members of the
community. 2 tangled, complicated, complex, twisted, snarled,
convoluted, confused, confusing, intricate, tortuous, elaborate,
knotty, Byzantine, labyrinthine: The plot is too involved to be
followed easily. The involved problems of adolescence cannot be
treated in a one-day conference. 3 involved with. associated
with, entangled with, embroiled with, enmeshed with, Colloq
mixed up with: Dennis is still very much involved with that
singer from the Green Dragon.
9.7 irk...
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irk v. irritate, annoy, vex, pester, provoke, chafe, nettle,
exasperate, Colloq needle, miff, aggravate, bug, peeve, rub
(someone) (up) the wrong way, put out: It really irks me to
know that we lost because we didn't practise.
irksome adj. irritating, annoying, vexing, vexatious, chafing,
nettling, exasperating, bothersome, troublesome, burdensome,
tiresome, tedious, boring, wearisome, uninteresting, Colloq
aggravating, pestiferous: The mosquitoes are particularly
irksome on muggy, windless evenings.
irregular adj. 1 uneven, bumpy, lumpy, coarse, rough, unequal,
unsymmetrical, asymmetric(al), pitted, potholed, jagged, craggy,
lopsided: The irregular surface of the road bounced us about in
the car. 2 sporadic, uneven, random, erratic, unequal, fitful,
haphazard, unsystematic, unsystematized, disorderly, uncertain,
unmethodical; occasional, casual: In the distance I could hear
the staccato of irregular machine-gun fire. 3 extraordinary,
unusual, eccentric, abnormal, anomalous, aberrant, unnatural,
peculiar, queer, odd, weird, bizarre, strange, singular,
nonconforming, nonconformist, exceptional, unconventional,
offbeat, uncommon, freakish, Colloq freaky: Don't you think
that keeping a Komodo dragon as a pet is somewhat irregular?
irrelevant