ghosted
Disappeared without warning
Ghosted describes the experience of being abruptly cut off by someone who stops all communication without explanation.
The term comes from dating culture but applies to any relationship: He ghosted me after three dates, The recruiter ghosted her after the interview.
To be ghosted is to be left wondering what happened while the other person simply vanishes.
Ceased to exist visibly
- vanishedDisappeared from sight
- goneNo longer present
- evaporatedConverted to gas
- fadedLost original color
poof · MIA · unreachable · incommunicado
Purposely not noticed
- unacknowledgedNot formally recognized
- overlookedNot noticed or considered
- snubbedIntentionally disregarded
- disregardedNot given consideration
sidelined · invisible · dismissed · shunned · stonewalled · blanked · cut · avoided
Visible supernatural manifestation
- specterGhostly threatening presence
- phantomInsubstantial apparition
- hauntedOccupied by ghosts
- poltergeistDisruptive supernatural entity
spirit · wraith · shade · ectoplasm · paranormal · séance · otherworldly · spectral
Completely abandoned or discarded
Having no equal
- breadcrumbingInconsistent romantic teasing
- zombieingReturning after vanishing romantically
- benchingRemoving from active play
- situationshipUndefined romantic involvement
swipe · match · blocked · unfollowed · unmatched · orbiting · seen · delivered
disappeared
Ceased to exist visibly
- vanishedDisappeared from sight
- goneNo longer present
- evaporatedConverted to gas
faded · poof · MIA · unreachable · incommunicado
ignored
Purposely not noticed
- unacknowledgedNot formally recognized
- overlookedNot noticed or considered
- snubbedIntentionally disregarded
disregarded · sidelined · invisible · dismissed · shunned · stonewalled · blanked · cut · avoided
apparition
Visible supernatural manifestation
poltergeist · spirit · wraith · shade · ectoplasm · paranormal · séance · otherworldly · spectral · ethereal
forsaken
Completely abandoned or discarded
forgotten · marooned · discarded · ditched · dropped · dumped · jilted
unmatched
Having no equal
- breadcrumbingInconsistent romantic teasing
- zombieingReturning after vanishing romantically
- benchingRemoving from active play
situationship · swipe · match · blocked · unfollowed · unmatched · orbiting · seen · delivered
- abandonmentabandon, abandoned, forsake, desert, leave
- outcastsoutcast, pariah, pariahs, outcasts, outlaws
- disappearedvanished, disappeared, gone, vanish, faded
- death idiomsdead end, dead serious, dead wrong, dead tired, dead weight
- London slanginnit, bruv, fam, roadman, bare
- exesex, ex-boyfriend, ex-girlfriend, ex-husband, ex-wife
ghostedresponded
Gave a reply
replied · reached out · called back · answered · got back to
- ghost storiesTales of the supernatural
- ghost storyNarrative featuring apparitions
- ghost townDeserted former inhabited place
- pale as a ghostExtremely pallid from shock
- white as a ghostExtremely pale complexion
- ghosts from one's pastUnresolved history resurfacing
ghost, ghostly, ghosting, ghosts, ghostwriter, ghostwrite, ghostwriters, ghostliness, ghostwriting