CAUGHT UP Synonyms: 104 Similar and Opposite Words

caught up

verb

past tense of catch up

as in trapped

to catch or hold as if in a net a young idealist who got caught up in the political fanaticism of the times

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as in fascinated

to hold the attention of as if by a spell completely caught up in opera ever since he saw La Traviata

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as in interested

to hold the attention of so caught up in the game that she didn't note the passage of time

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as in informed

to give information to catch me up on what's been happening at the office

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Recent Examples of caught up Major retailers including luxury groups such as Louis Vuitton and Rolex and beauty retailer Sephora were caught up in the violence, Reuters reported. — Sadie Andrew, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026 In the meantime, Literary Hub caught up with the finalists to ask them a few questions about their reading and writing lives. — Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026 At least 350 supermarkets — a small fraction of the total number in France — were caught up in the strike. — Reuters, NBC news, 13 Oct. 2026 There were portable classrooms doing double duty at the elementary school half a mile away because enrollment was up more than 500%, and the district hadn’t caught up yet. — Ken Lundin, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026 Meta announced its most powerful AI model to date, Muse Wonder, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg told the Financial Times showed that Meta had caught up to frontier. — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026 Permanent faculty numbers finally caught up to pre-pandemic levels in 2025. — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 6 Oct. 2026 But even after Ryan caught up to the quarterback, Maiava barely broke his stride. — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026 Created by Lauren Iungerich, Poser is a thriller in which two estranged former best friends get caught up in a psychological game after one gets the life she’s always coveted. — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for caught up

Verb

This year, heavensouls dropped westside trapped, a showcase of plundersymphonic finesse and a tribute to Nigerian beats.

— Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2026
Rae, trapped in a ghetto in Novogrudok, watched the Nazis murder her mother and one of her sisters.

— Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of trapped

Verb

On a visit to the Bargello sculpture museum in Florence, Italy, a 3-year-old friend of mine was fascinated by its statues’ naked butts.

— Blake Gopnik, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2026
He’s always been obsessed with historic epochs like the Civil War and World War II and fascinated with the post-war boom and the sojourns of Route 66.

— Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of fascinated

Verb

Sorrells said that his opponent’s assessment is Ill-informed.

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Oct. 2026
Defense Department personnel may not make any financial transaction informed by nonpublic information, regardless of whether that information is classified or unclassified, Hegseth wrote.

— Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of informed

Verb

The costly dispute instead stretched for almost a decade, becoming tangled up with the War of the Austrian Succession.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 Oct. 2026
Besides the challenge of rebuilding the tunnel, the railroad has been tangled for several years in legal disputes with the city of Fort Bragg and the California Coastal Commission.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of tangled

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The boy was a soccer player who was enchanted by the idea of camping in the woods; Charlotte was bright and cheery, sometimes applying glitter to her father’s mustache.

— Abe Streep, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026
My daughter was enchanted by the Balinese rice-on-the-forehead ritual for good fortune that is a part of the arrival, and the front desk staff happily indulged her request to do it again—multiple times a day.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of enchanted

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Jason Oppenheim, the luxury real estate broker best known for his role on Selling Sunset, was intrigued by Pratt and Raman this election cycle.

— Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 19 Oct. 2026
My 15-year-old daughter just got her learner’s permit, so when I was pitched a new gadget tailored to teen drivers, I was intrigued.

— Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of intrigued

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Switzerland's foreign ministry told The Associated Press on Friday that the woman, married to a Swiss diplomat in Nigeria, had not visited Congo and was believed to have contracted Ebola while traveling to Uganda.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
Scholten told Semafor that experience positions Turek to convert frustrated Republicans.

— Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 26 Oct. 2026