amnesiac

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He is playing the amnesiac, remembering nothing of his career.

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  1. Having lost memories, especially due to brain injury or mental shock; suffering from amnesia.

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  1. a person suffering from amnesia
  2. suffering from a partial loss of memory

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  • Well, let's first check and make sure they're really amnesiac. —  Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy?
  • We ask these amnesiac patients to tell us which one they own, which one they chose last time, which one is theirs. —  Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy?
  • And what we find is amnesiac patients just guess. —  Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy?
  • But if I do this with amnesiac patients, they don't have a clue. —  Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy?
  • Hammett sat back with his second drink, lit a cigarette, and exhaled You look like your day's been as lucky as mine, " he told Holmes What universal law, I wonder, determines that all potential witnesses be either missing, amnesiac, or comprehensively stupid?" —  King, Laurie R - Russell-Holmes 08 - Locked Rooms
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