ghostear
Spanish, verb/ɡousteˈaɾ/
ghostear is a Spanish verb meaning “to ghost (to perform an act of ghosting: to break up with someone without warning or explanation; to ignore someone, especially on social…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Cortar súbita y permanentemente toda la comunicación y todos los lazos de afinidad que se tienen con una…”.
What does ghostear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to ghost (to perform an act of ghosting: to break up with someone without warning or explanation; to ignore someone, especially on social media)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Cortar súbita y permanentemente toda la comunicación y todos los lazos de afinidad que se tienen con una persona.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of ghostear
- ghosteo first-person present singular
- ghosteé first-person preterite singular
- ghosteado participle past
- ghosteando gerund
- ghosteada feminine participle past
- ghosteados masculine participle past
- ghosteadas feminine participle past
- ghosteas indicative informal present
- ghosteás indicative informal present
- ghostea indicative present singular
- ghosteamos first-person indicative plural
- ghosteáis indicative plural present
- ghostean indicative plural present
- ghosteaba first-person imperfect indicative
- ghosteabas imperfect indicative second-person
- ghosteábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- ghosteabais imperfect indicative plural
- ghosteaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ghostear?
- /ɡousteˈaɾ/
- [ɡou̯s.t̪eˈaɾ]
- [gost̪eˈaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is ghostear in Spanish?
ghostear appears about once in every 69 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).