Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. A past participle of forget.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Past participle of forget.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of which knowledge has been lost, which is no longer remembered.
- v. Past participle of forget
- n. A person or thing that has been forgotten.
GNU Webster's 1913
- p. p. of forget.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not noticed inadvertently
Examples
“To prove to you that I had not forgotten you before your letter came, here is the fragment of an unfinished one which I send you, to begin with -- an imperfect fossil letter, which no comparative anatomy will bring much sense out of -- except the plain fact _that you were not forgotten_ ....”
“I have never forgotten -- never -- never _forgotten_!" faltered Madeleine, in a voice that had a sound of tears, answering to those that glittered in her eyes.”
“For this world, warm in the middle and my name forgotten, I have to run and give these daffodil prisms to the poor that I took from the dead.”
“Back in the day, Tosches wrote a column for Creem Magazine called Unsung Heroes, in which he profiled what he called "forgotten rhythm-and-blues and country renegades.”
The Huffington Post: Holly Cara Price: Great Rock & Roll Reads for the Fall
“FDR ` s entire appeal was to what he called the forgotten man, these guys who were left behind in the switches of industrial capitalism and all the rest.”
“As we mentioned, McCain spending this week campaigning in what he calls the forgotten areas of America, trying to convince voters he's a different kind of Republican candidate.”
“Through two decades of prolific, if disputed, research and some 400 speeches a year on what he calls the forgotten Christian roots of America, Mr. Barton, 57, a former school principal and an ordained minister, has steadily built a reputation as a guiding spirit of the religious right.”
“Republicans responded at a news conference where they highlighted what they called the "forgotten 15," bills that the House has passed and Republicans say will lead to job growth but which the Democratic-controlled Senate has ignored.”
“Quiram says public works is often what he calls the forgotten emergency service.”
“What Mr. Carney along with the rest of the foreclosure proponents, doesn't seem to understand, or has conveniently forgotten, is that millions of homeowners were convinced by the banks and servicers that defaulting on their loans would help save the very homes he seems to think they deserve to lose.”
The Huffington Post: Richard Zombeck: Bankers New Tactic: Blame the Victim
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘forgotten’.
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ghost
This is Ghost List 2 ( the kind that go 'boo!' ) :P
( open list )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/macabrephantom, spectral, specter, spectre, spooky, poltergeist, haunt, spirit, banshee, cryptic, shadow, phantasm and 311 more...
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capitalcreative's Words
deviltry, visceral, cassanova, assuage, genesis, hot minute, osmosis, wistful, sublime, loathe, farfetched, newfangled and 283 more...
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The Most Beautiful Words in the Engli...
mellifluous, obscure, star-crossed, undulating, solstice, messiah, audacious, solace, twilight, wanderlust, lovelorn, byzantine and 219 more...
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candy cane heroin
sex, sexual, branden, rozz, candy cane, candy canes, cotton candy, may day, may, taurus, heroin, love and 134 more...
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classic695's Words
delighted, elated, energetic, excited, enthusiastic, elevated, happy, contented, fine, pleased, satisfied, compassionate and 168 more...
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Prosie: Obama's Inaugural Address
In keeping with my other Prosies (like this one). There were a number of phrases as well as words in this speech that I found particularly compelling.
My fellow citizens: I stand here ...we did not turn b..., when we were tested, what storms may come, icy currents, virtue, hope, alarmed, depth of winter, revolution, snow, enemy, abandoned and 257 more...
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suzyg's Words
brandish, recompence, shopping, dichotomy, paradigm, reverse osmosis, anyway, despite, drunk, degenerate, insipid, grateful and 438 more...
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MsHalston's Words
theoretically, insufferable, apolitico, milquetoast, egregious, aplomb, elan, fraught, flummox, befrocked, moll, molten and 605 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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RoughOctober's list
nature, steampunk, weather, colors, and other assorted (sometimes moody) words
beetle, barn, beacon, water, engine, typhoon, doldrums, leaves, mica, steam, bowgrace, leaf and 121 more...
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Aliisza's Words
peculiar, syndactyly, efficacy, transcendent, visceral, antagonist, plausible, velocity, seraphim, vanadium, autophobia, evanescent and 86 more...
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an ancient someone, dressed in white
past, forgotten, rush, asleep, thunder, countless, roses, blood, rosebud, veins, wrists, shudder and 9 more...
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Tunie: And the Band Played Waltzing M...
I used to sing this as a lullaby to my spawn—till said spawn grew big enough to understand the words, and asked me to sing something else.
Written by Eric Bogle, c. 1971.
...billabong, ghosts, no one, fewer, the call, question, what are they mar..., forgotten war, forgotten, sore, stiff, bent and 66 more...
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Tunie: When You Dream
by Barenaked Ladies.
With life just begun, my sleeping new son
Has eyes that roll back in his head
They flutter and dart, he slows down his heart
And pictures a world...beyond, wise, cognizant, experience, waves, transistor radio, runaway, perceived, loud, noises, boisterous, silent and 39 more...
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"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
Just words I like, think stand out in the poem, or are more significant than other words.
forgotten, tapping, rapping, chamber, bleak, surcease, sorrow, nameless, darkness, whispered, obeisance, mien and 26 more...
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Not Quite Physical Words
These are words I like or would like to use to describe people and things that aren't normally used. I guess it's really my poetic license list? This is a companion to Physical Words
slipping, uneasy, dusk, earthquake, dreamscape, wheat field, daybreak, honest, brimming, forgotten, desert, ocean and 12 more...
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