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ChatGPT

/ˈt͡ʃætˌd͡ʒiːpiːˈtiː/

ChatGPT proper noun: a popular chatbot based on a large language model created by OpenAI.

Proper noun

ChatGPT

  1. A popular chatbot based on a large language model created by OpenAI.
    • 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
    • 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...
    Synonyms:
    GPT, Chatty G

Verb

ChatGPT (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)

  1. (Internet, ambitransitive) To use ChatGPT; to create or generate (something) with the help of ChatGPT.
    • I ChatGPTed a bedtime story for my son.
    • 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

Synonyms of ChatGPT

Forms of ChatGPT

third-person singular presentChatGPTs
third-person singular presentChatGPT's
present participleChatGPTing
present participleChatGPT'ing
present participleChatGPT-ing
past participleChatGPTed
pastChatGPTed
past participleChatGPT'd
pastChatGPT'd
past participleChatGPT'ed
pastChatGPT'ed
past participleChatGPT-ed
pastChatGPT-ed

Origin of ChatGPT

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

Questions about ChatGPT

What does ChatGPT mean?
ChatGPT means a popular chatbot based on a large language model created by OpenAI.
What part of speech is ChatGPT?
ChatGPT can be a proper noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃætˌd͡ʒiːpiːˈtiː/.

Words near ChatGPT in the dictionary

  1. chatfest
  2. chatfests
  3. Chatfield
  4. Chatfields
  5. Chatgate
  6. ChatGPT
  7. ChatGPT'd
  8. ChatGPT'ed
  9. ChatGPT'ing
  10. ChatGPT's
  11. ChatGPT-ed

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ChatGPT (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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