different between baffling vs involved

English

Verb

baffling

1. present participle of baffle

Adjective

baffling (comparative more baffling, superlative most baffling)

1. Puzzling, perplexing, bewildering.
2. frustrating

Derived terms

• baffling wind

Translations

Noun

baffling (plural bafflings)

1. An act of foiling or thwarting.
   • 1831, The Quarterly Review (London)

     […] the contrast of the one determined and still triumphant will of the man, with the transient and vain bafflings of winds or waves, of gods, or monsters […]

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?v?lvd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?v?lvd/
• Hyphenation: in?volved

Adjective

involved (comparative more involved, superlative most involved)

1. complicated.

   He related an involved story about every ancestor since 1895.

   • 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, ch. 43

     Miss Price told him a long, involved story, which made out that Mrs. Otter, a humdrum and respectable little person, had scabrous intrigues.

2. 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.

3. Having an affair with someone.

Derived terms

• involvedly
• involvedness

Translations

Verb

involved

1. simple past tense and past participle of involve

   The explanation involved potatoes, squirrels, and race cars.