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in: I didn't know that Annette was involved. Are you involved<br />

in that murder investigation?<br />

involved adj. 1 implicated, concerned, affected, interested, active:<br />

The public enquiry was attended by all involved members of the<br />

community. 2 tangled, complicated, complex, twisted, snarled,<br />

convoluted, confused, confusing, intricate, tortuous, elaborate,<br />

knotty, Byzantine, labyrinthine: The plot is too involved to be<br />

followed easily. The involved problems of adolescence cannot be<br />

treated in a one-day conference. 3 involved with. associated<br />

with, entangled with, embroiled with, enmeshed with, Colloq<br />

mixed up with: Dennis is still very much involved with that<br />

singer from the Green Dragon.<br />

9.7 irk...<br />

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=irk<br />

v. irritate, annoy, vex, pester, provoke, chafe, nettle,<br />

exasperate, Colloq needle, miff, aggravate, bug, peeve, rub<br />

(someone) (up) the wrong way, put out: It really irks me to<br />

know that we lost because we didn't practise.<br />

irksome adj. irritating, annoying, vexing, vexatious, chafing,<br />

nettling, exasperating, bothersome, troublesome, burdensome,<br />

tiresome, tedious, boring, wearisome, uninteresting, Colloq<br />

aggravating, pestiferous: The mosquitoes are particularly<br />

irksome on muggy, windless evenings.<br />

irregular adj. 1 uneven, bumpy, lumpy, coarse, rough, unequal,<br />

unsymmetrical, asymmetric(al), pitted, potholed, jagged, craggy,<br />

lopsided: The irregular surface of the road bounced us about in<br />

the car. 2 sporadic, uneven, random, erratic, unequal, fitful,<br />

haphazard, unsystematic, unsystematized, disorderly, uncertain,<br />

unmethodical; occasional, casual: In the distance I could hear<br />

the staccato of irregular machine-gun fire. 3 extraordinary,<br />

unusual, eccentric, abnormal, anomalous, aberrant, unnatural,<br />

peculiar, queer, odd, weird, bizarre, strange, singular,<br />

nonconforming, nonconformist, exceptional, unconventional,<br />

offbeat, uncommon, freakish, Colloq freaky: Don't you think<br />

that keeping a Komodo dragon as a pet is somewhat irregular?<br />

irrelevant

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