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 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 What began as a Paris Hilton anecdote about her Chihuahua is turning into a legitimate product category, and veterinarians warn that the science and the safety haven’t caught up with the hype. — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 28 Sep. 2026 The likes of Justin Baldoni, Andrew Huberman, Scooter Braun and Travis Scott have been caught up in revelations about the practice. — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 28 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for caught up

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Separately, a woman trapped inside her car in floodwaters was freed outside of Morganton.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2026
As his father became more trapped by his criminal enterprises, Flynn remained decent and upstanding.

— Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of trapped

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In 2008, passionate surfer Tim Russo purchased the property, renamed it, and set out to organically grow it into a resort full of wonder where serious surfers and travelers fascinated with the surf lifestyle could vacation happily.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2026
Ancient Greeks were fascinated by phallic symbols and that showed in their comedy.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of fascinated

Verb

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
Perhaps too enchanted, as Pitt lost his date on the dance floor that night.

— Daysia Tolentino, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of enchanted

Verb

She was taken with Arnold right away, and intrigued by Bartlett’s visual style and imagination.

— Darryn King, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
The latter ran the college’s Computer Science department; the former is intrigued by the teacher’s lectures on neural networks.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of intrigued

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Others have been buried by the migrants themselves, but they won't be added to the official count until authorities can verify the bodies, Alexandre Coissac, IOM Chief of Mission in Djibouti, told the Associated Press via the phone.

— JAMEY KEATEN, Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2026
Rahadian says he was drawn to a story of motherhood told through children whose mother was missing from their lives, set in a moment when a person’s citizenship could be taken away suddenly, by force and without warning.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026