Definitions for ghosting

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ghosting ghost·ing

Spelling: [goh-sting]

IPA: /ˈgoʊ stɪŋ/

Ghosting is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 200 anagrams from letters in ghosting (gghinost).

Definitions for ghosting

noun

1. Television. the appearance of multiple images, or ghosts, on a television screen.
2. Informal. the practice of suddenly ending all contact with a person without explanation, especially in a romantic relationship: Also called French goodbye, Irish goodbye. the act of leaving a social event or engagement suddenly without saying goodbye:
3. Digital Technology. the removal of comments, threads, or other content from a website or online forum without informing the poster, keeping them hidden from the public but still visible to the poster.
4. 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.
5. a mere shadow or semblance; a trace:
6. a remote possibility:
7. (sometimes initial capital letter) a spiritual being.
8. the principle of life; soul; spirit.
9. Informal. ghost writer.
10. a secondary image, especially one appearing on a television screen as a white shadow, caused by poor or double reception or by a defect in the receiver.
11. Also called ghost image. Photography. a faint secondary or out-of-focus image in a photographic print or negative resulting from reflections within the camera lens.
12. an oral word game in which each player in rotation adds a letter to those supplied by preceding players, the object being to avoid ending a word.
13. Optics. a series of false spectral lines produced by a diffraction grating with unevenly spaced lines.
14. Metalworking. a streak appearing on a freshly machined piece of steel containing impurities.
15. a red blood cell having no hemoglobin.
16. a fictitious employee, business, etc., fabricated especially for the purpose of manipulating funds or avoiding taxes:

Idioms

1. give up the ghost, to die. to cease to function or exist.

adjective

1. fabricated for purposes of deception or fraud:

verb (used with object)

1. to ghostwrite (a book, speech, etc.).
2. to haunt.
3. Engraving. to lighten the background of (a photograph) before engraving.
4. Informal. to suddenly end all contact with (a person) without explanation, especially in a romantic relationship: to leave (a social event or gathering) suddenly without saying goodbye:
5. Digital Technology. to remove (comments, threads, or other digital content) from a website or online forum without informing the poster, keeping them hidden from the public but still visible to the poster.

verb (used without object)

1. to ghostwrite.
2. to go about or move like a ghost.
3. (of a sailing vessel) to move when there is no perceptible wind.
4. to pay people for work not performed, especially as a way of manipulating funds.
5. Informal. to suddenly end all contact with a person without explanation, especially in a romantic relationship: to leave a social event or gathering suddenly without saying goodbye:
6. Digital Technology. to remove comments, threads, or other digital content from a website or online forum without informing the poster, keeping them hidden from the public but still visible to the poster.

Origin of ghosting

ghost + -ing¹

Examples for ghosting

Unlike most government officials, he wrote well, even when ghosting.

There was no second thought in her mind when she first declined the ghosting, and afterwards undertook the part.