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 First, while women’s health is now well-understood as a category among early-stage investors, growth investors haven’t all caught up. — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026 What everyone was caught up in was an appetite with a longer history than the social media platforms now feeding it. — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2026 Florida State spent years behind in the facilities race — one reason why head coach Jimbo Fisher left for Texas A&M in 2017 — but caught up last year. — Matt Baker, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026 The technology feeding climate change has not caught up with how to save the planet from lethal heat. — Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2026 Wikus van de Merwe (Sharlto Copley) plays a government agent working in the Department of Alien Affairs, who gets caught up in a world of questionable ethics and violence. — Grace Dean, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2026 The films also involve normie couples caught up in hauntings, dealt Old Testament–style punishments by forces from the great beyond. — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026 If your dog swallows these fibers, it can get caught up in the digestive tract like hair in plumbing and create a blockage. — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026 Some who believe Kushner and Iger got caught up in the moment and overpaid point to the bidding war with Comcast for 21st Century Fox that Iger won for Disney in 2019. — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for caught up

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Even more horrifying than death was the thought of lying there, trapped beneath the rubble, listening to my two-year-old son desperately crying for help.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
The two workers who had been trapped, along with the crane operator who managed to jump out as the crane was tipping over, were all transported to a nearby trauma center with minor injuries, Hevia said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026

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As Oppenheim put it at the film’s Venice press conference, he’d long been fascinated by Hansen, and only became more so after his wife gifted him a Cameo from the host for his birthday.

— Nate Jones, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2026
Here are four more scammers who fascinated people on the internet – plus one who people thought was a scammer but turned out not to be.

— Owen Carry, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of fascinated

Verb

This question interested me as a computational biophysicist who studies how living systems process information and adapt to changing environments.

— Shiladitya Banerjee, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026
Your three films to date reveal you as a filmmaker interested in structure.

— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of interested

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Trump is moving to strip California’s emissions authority, end tax credits and erase electric vehicle sales mandates, reshaping the national market while leaving the state’s clean-car future tangled in Washington-level uncertainty.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Reese was tangled up in the paint with the Fire's Carla Leite as Dream guard Rhyne Howard made a 3-pointer from the right corner during the fourth quarter.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of tangled

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The spa Among the most enchanted of spaces in a castle that is seemingly composed of nothing but enchanted spaces.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Sep. 2026
Pop music is enchanted with electric guitar this year between the Charli XCX and Olivia Rodrigo rock albums.

— Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of enchanted

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But he’s intrigued enough to take the file from Emma anyway and quickly concludes, along with River, that Loy did not break his own arm and then barbecue himself making marshmallows.

— Scott Tobias, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2026
When a solar sales team showed up at Craig McKinney's Waxahachie home last year, he was intrigued.

— Erin Jones, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of intrigued

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The pound also drew support at the start of the Iran conflict in April on outsized market expectations for a monetary policy response to inflation fears from the Bank of England, Jane Foley, senior FX strategist at Rabobank, told CNBC.

— Jenni Reid, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026
As an aside, imagine the outcry there would be from Leclerc fans if Ferrari had told him to back up Hamilton.

— Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026