Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Tending or likely to forget.
- adj. Marked by neglectful or heedless failure to remember: forgetful of one's responsibilities.
- adj. Causing one to be unable to remember.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Disposed or apt to forget; easily losing the power of recalling past experience or knowledge to mind.
- Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive.
- Causing to forget; inducing oblivion; oblivious.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance.
- adj. Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive.
- adj. Archaic or Poetic Causing to forget; inducing oblivion; oblivious.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not mindful or attentive
- adj. failing to keep in mind
- adj. (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
Etymologies
- From forget + -ful. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The newest incentive fad is to pay the "forgetful" to take their medicine.”
The Wall Street Journal: Age of Incentives: Paying Big Bucks For Puny Results
“Even in the fanciest of fancy Assisted Living Units -- like one I saw with slick silver salt shakers, state-of-the-art elevators and a door-alarm system disguised behind paneled walls, as well as a pristine health spa with fluffy white towels, reminiscent of five star hotels -- the "forgetful" are not allowed outside the bounds of their "ward", unless they ask permission.”
Karin Luisa: Assisted Living for the Demented: Locked-Up Syndrome
“Old people vote so there will never be a mental competency test for doing open heart surgery because you'd scare everyone that being "forgetful" will deny you an operation.”
“I left out "quirky and offbeat" as well as "forgetful" and others I'd prefer not to mention.”
“I think it wouldn't happen so often to us "forgetful" spouses if we were allowed to get new ID's every time our husbands get promoted.”
From Kid in the Candy Store to Disgraced Grown Up - SpouseBUZZ
“However, being as 'forgetful' as I was in that current condition, I can barely remember a word of advice he said to me!”
“Female interviewees were, once again, resolutely vague or "forgetful" when it came to the proper names of European officials or settlers, although they had little trouble recalling their nicknames in Shangaan.”
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
“He's even kind of forgetful (not as bad as when he's Glitch, I'm sure) like at the end.”
“There's no way of knowing if they're "tax resisters" who challenge the legality of the income tax or just "forgetful," like the local politician who blathers endlessly on the need to fund his pet projects while neglecting to pay his own taxes.”
“IF skies remain clear, the air warm, and pollen and nectar abound in the flowers, the workers, through a kind of forgetful indulgence, or over-scrupulous prudence perhaps, will for a short time longer endure the importunate, disastrous presence of the males.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘forgetful’.
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GCI
spinster, maiden, happy-go-lucky, homonym, ill-at-ease, saw red, out of sorts, hot under the collar, taken aback, pen-names, alias, shoelaces and 378 more...
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full of; having qualities of; having ability to
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I am
pierced, bearded, mustachioed, blogger, writer, tattooed, high cholesterol, diabetic, overweight, anxious, pet owner, husband and 62 more...
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Autobiography
Words that describe or relate in some way to me
anosmia, Asperger's Syndrome, daughter, granddaughter, sister, niece, shy, bibliophile, imagination, library, librarian, writer and 17 more...
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Meet VirJENia
I've been holding off, but the name was irrelistable.
chipper, bibliophile, clean, disorganized, scattery, perfectionist, enthusiastic, intuitive, caring, forgetful, daydreamer, gentle and 4 more...
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