Meanings
- 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 20251 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
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
- 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.
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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 2026But 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
Origin
- Middle Englishcheteren, chiteren (Imitative)
- Middle Englishchateren
- Englishchatterclip.
- Englishchat
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵenh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵénh₁os
- Proto-Italic*genos
- Latingenus
- Latingenero
- Middle Englishgeneratyve
- Englishgenerativeinit.
- Proto-Indo-European*per-
- Proto-Indo-European*preh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*préh₂i?
- Proto-Italic*prai
- Proto-Italic*prai-
- Latinprae-
- Middle Englishpre-
- Englishpre-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰregʰ-der.?
- Latintrahere
- Vulgar Latin*tragīnāre
- Old Frenchtraïner
- Old Frenchtrain
- Middle Englishtrayne
- Englishtrain
- Englishtrained
- Englishpre-
- Englishtrain
- Englishpretrain
- Englishpretrainedinit.
- Proto-Indo-European*terh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*térh₂t
- Proto-Indo-European*tr̥h₂ónts
- Proto-Indo-European*tr̥h₂n̥ts
- Proto-Italic*trāns
- Proto-Italic*trāns-
- Latintrāns-
- Ancient Greekμορφή (morphḗ)der.?
- Latinfōrma
- Latinfōrmō
- Latintransformo
- Old Frenchtransformer
- Middle Frenchtransfourmer
- Middle Englishtransformen
- Englishtransform
- Englishtransformerinit.
- EnglishGPT
- EnglishChatGPT
From chat + GPT (“generative pre-trained transformer”). First attested in 2022.
More words from chat<id, GPT<ety
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
ChatGPT. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ChatGPT
“ChatGPT.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ChatGPT. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ChatGPT,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ChatGPT.
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