# ghosted

Pronunciation: say "GOHST-id" US /ˈɡoʊstɪd/, UK /ˈɡəʊstɪd/, AUS /ˈɡɐʉstɪd/

## Verb

1. Simple past and past participle of ghost. — simple past and past participle of ghost
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of ghost. Use this form for something that already happened.
   - _After weeks of silence, she realized he had ghosted her completely._
   - _The recruiter ghosted every applicant who missed the first deadline._

## Adjective

2. Written by an uncredited author and published under the name of another person.
   - Simple: Written for someone by an unnamed writer, then published under that person's name.
   - _Critics suspected the autobiography was ghosted rather than penned by the athlete himself._
   - _The publisher specialized in ghosted business books for busy executives._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/ghosted (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).