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- [goh-sting]
- /ˈgoʊ stɪŋ/
- /ˈɡəʊst.raɪt/
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- [goh-sting]
- /ˈgoʊ stɪŋ/
Definitions of ghosting word
- noun ghosting the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons. 1
- noun ghosting a mere shadow or semblance; a trace: He's a ghost of his former self. 1
- noun ghosting a remote possibility: He hasn't a ghost of a chance. 1
- noun ghosting (sometimes initial capital letter) a spiritual being. 1
- noun ghosting the principle of life; soul; spirit. 1
- noun ghosting Informal. ghost writer. 1
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Parts of speech for Ghosting
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ghosting popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 65% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.
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verb ghosting
- form — external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
- devise — If you devise a plan, system, or machine, you have the idea for it and design it.
- set up — the act or state of setting or the state of being set.
- conceive — If you cannot conceive of something, you cannot imagine it or believe it.
- invent — to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph.
Antonyms for ghosting
verb ghosting
- destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
- ruin — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- disorganize — to destroy the organization, systematic arrangement, or orderly connection of; throw into confusion or disorder.
- demolish — To demolish something such as a building means to destroy it completely.
- wreck — any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.
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