ChatGPT

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/ˈt͡ʃætˌd͡ʒiːpiːˈtiː/

proper noun

A popular chatbot based on a large language model created by OpenAI.

“I ChatGPTed a bedtime story for my son.”

First used late 2022Scrabble 15

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A popular chatbot based on a large language model created by OpenAI.

    By Thursday, Ms. Berganza said ChatGPT appeared to have tightened restrictions on what images users were allowed to Ghiblify.

    2025 March 27, Madison Malone Kircher, “People Love Studio Ghibli. But Should They Be Able to Recreate It?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2025
    1 more example

    Heavy users of ChatGPT tend to be lonelier, more emotionally dependent on the AI tool and have fewer offline social relationships, new research suggests.

    2025 March 25, Rachel Hall, “Heavy ChatGPT users tend to be more lonely, suggests research”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2025

    Synonyms: GPT, Chatty G

verbChatGPT (third-person singular simple present ChatGPTs or ChatGPT's, present participle ChatGPTing or ChatGPT'ing or ChatGPT-ing, simple past and past participle ChatGPTed or ChatGPT'd or ChatGPT'ed or ChatGPT-ed)

present singular third person ChatGPTs · present singular third person ChatGPT's · participle present ChatGPTing · participle present ChatGPT'ing · participle present ChatGPT-ing · participle past ChatGPTed · past ChatGPTed · participle past ChatGPT'd · past ChatGPT'd · participle past ChatGPT'ed · past ChatGPT'ed · participle past ChatGPT-ed · past ChatGPT-ed

  1. InternetambitransitiveTo use ChatGPT; to create or generate (something) with the help of ChatGPT.First known use late 2022

    I ChatGPTed a bedtime story for my son.

    2 more examples

    Coffee shops-cum-meeting-spots dotted across the city are teeming (Equator, Blue Bottle and Saint Frank). Caffeine-fuelled, lactose-intolerant, macadamia milk latte-drinking young folk are journalling, manifesting, coding, ChatGPT-ing and pitching their ideas.

    2023 February 5, Kathryn Parsons, “Boom times are back in San Francisco’s tech mecca”, in The Sunday Times, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2026

    But she’d been “Chatfished” before, so when the gap between his real and digital selves failed to close on their second date, she called it off. “I’d already been ChatGPT-ed into bed at least once. I didn’t want it to happen again.”

    2025 October 12, Alexandra Jones, quoting Rachel, “‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 Dec 2025

Synonyms & antonyms

proper nounA popular chatbot based on a large language model created by OpenAI.

Origin

  1. Middle Englishcheteren, chiteren (Imitative)
  2. Middle Englishchateren
  3. Englishchatterclip.
  4. Englishchat
  5. Proto-Indo-European*ǵenh₁-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*ǵénh₁os
  7. Proto-Italic*genos
  8. Latingenus
  9. Latingenero
  10. Middle Englishgeneratyve
  11. Englishgenerativeinit.
  12. Proto-Indo-European*per-
  13. Proto-Indo-European*preh₂-
  14. Proto-Indo-European*préh₂i?
  15. Proto-Italic*prai
  16. Proto-Italic*prai-
  17. Latinprae-
  18. Middle Englishpre-
  19. Englishpre-
  20. Proto-Indo-European*dʰregʰ-der.?
  21. Latintrahere
  22. Vulgar Latin*tragīnāre
  23. Old Frenchtraïner
  24. Old Frenchtrain
  25. Middle Englishtrayne
  26. Englishtrain
  27. Englishtrained
  28. Englishpre-
  29. Englishtrain
  30. Englishpretrain
  31. Englishpretrainedinit.
  32. Proto-Indo-European*terh₂-
  33. Proto-Indo-European*térh₂t
  34. Proto-Indo-European*tr̥h₂ónts
  35. Proto-Indo-European*tr̥h₂n̥ts
  36. Proto-Italic*trāns
  37. Proto-Italic*trāns-
  38. Latintrāns-
  39. Ancient Greekμορφή (morphḗ)der.?
  40. Latinfōrma
  41. Latinfōrmō
  42. Latintransformo
  43. Old Frenchtransformer
  44. Middle Frenchtransfourmer
  45. Middle Englishtransformen
  46. Englishtransform
  47. Englishtransformerinit.
  48. EnglishGPT
  49. EnglishChatGPT

From chat + GPT (“generative pre-trained transformer”). First attested in 2022.

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Cite this entry
APA

ChatGPT. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ChatGPT

MLA

“ChatGPT.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ChatGPT. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ChatGPT,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ChatGPT.

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