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US
/fɝˈɡɛtfəɫ, fɔɹˈɡɛtfəɫ/
]
[ UK /fəɡˈɛtfəl/ ]
[ UK /fəɡˈɛtfəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
a short memory -
not mindful or attentive
while thus unmindful of his steps he stumbled -
failing to keep in mind
oblivious old age
forgetful of her responsibilities
How To Use forgetful In A Sentence
- This process is naturally the opposite of that employed by the forgetful Don Juan, the master figure of our sexually licentious age.
- Blindly, unwittingly, erringly as Dickens often urged them, these ideals mark the whole tendency of his fiction, and they are what endear him to the heart, and will keep him dear to it long after many a cunninger artificer in letters has passed into forgetfulness. Literature and Life (Complete)
- Guardastagno (forgetting the lawes of respect and loyall friendship) became overfondly enamoured, expressing the same by such outward meanes, that the Lady her selfe tooke knowledge thereof, and not with any dislike, as it seemed, but rather lovingly entertained; yet she grew not so forgetfull of her honour and estimation, as the other did of faith to his friend. The Decameron
- Now he has become quite forgetful. Times, Sunday Times
- The author suggests that in a fruitful search for truth we must experience a self-forgetfulness that is not self-annihilation, but a form of pleasure.
- Forgetfulness and Famine and tearful Sorrows, Fightings also, Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
- My friend Phil Proctor just sent along a poem that I much enjoyed, ‘Forgetfulness,’ by Billy Collins - and I rarely enjoy unrhymed poems.
- With all her forgetfulness of God, God still remembers her; showing that her redemption is altogether of grace. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- forgetful of her responsibilities
- For £4.99 it's a cheap but valuable back-up for the forgetful traveller.
