Definition of "involved"

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

1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XLIII, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company

E-commerce has turned even the laying of a floor into a fiendishly involved business.

2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian‎