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 Vogue tied the concealer lips revival to appearances at Chanel, Dior, Jason Wu Collection and Khaite, giving the look a credible runway lineage well before TikTok caught up. — Ashley Lynch, Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2026 But Madeley doesn’t want that history, or getting caught up in the discussion of representation, to overshadow the film’s content. — Kristen Lopez, IndieWire, 2 Nov. 2026 The science arrived in the 1990s, but the delivery system never caught up. — Karen E. Knudsen, STAT, 27 Oct. 2026 Thomas Jefferson, himself an agrarian populist, has been especially caught up in the crossfire. — Jackson Lears, Harpers Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026 In the city of Rowlett, one family says their property is caught up in a road improvement plan and is trying to fight back. — CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026 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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for caught up

Verb

According to a sheriff’s department report, Barnes was trapped in her vehicle when police arrived.

— Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026
Several of those whales were endangered humpbacks trapped by crab gear, both commercial and recreational.

— Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 2 Nov. 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

Kelker-Kelly’s wife, Allison Kelly, informed authorities the actor complained of pain in his left arm and chest while on the drive home from Spirit Airport, People reported.

— Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
Those works and other similar ones in the Met’s collection exemplified a neoclassical New England style that informed her work, titled Vessel.

— Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of informed

Verb

Though dreams are tangled up in our desires, Freud’s royal road to the unconscious is not unlike the road in Lost Highway, and other similar Möbius strip horrors, such as the purgatorial Dead End.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2026
Micelles that form in the liquid dope prevent the messy, disordered proteins from clumping and getting tangled.

— Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of tangled

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After falling in love with one another, the pair became enchanted by wine when McCollum was playing for the Portland Trail Blazers.

— Mike DeSimone, Robb Report, 1 Nov. 2026
He is enchanted by the spinning itself, and even by his own enchantment – a spell that breaks the instant the top stops in his hand.

— Stacy Keltner, The Conversation, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of enchanted

Verb

The six-episode thriller paints an eerie image of small-town life in Newfoundland, and viewers are intrigued by the mystique of the striking Canadian backdrop.

— Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Nov. 2026
Both Heder and Madeley were intrigued by the juxtaposition of Heumann’s desire for movement with her paralysis forcing her to be still.

— Kristen Lopez, IndieWire, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of intrigued

Verb

At the Vatican a day earlier, Leo told the teams from alma mater Villanova and fellow Catholic university Notre Dame that in matters of sport, the pontiff was neutral.

— Andrew Dampf, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2026
In other cases, developers have told towns that decade-old ideas for enormous retail development of open parcels simply aren’t practical anymore.

— Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 1 Nov. 2026