forget
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈɡɛt/
other: /fɔːˈɡɛt/
ipa: /fɚˈɡɛt/
other: /fɔɹˈɡɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: forgets
form: forgetting
form: forgot
form: forgat
form: forgotten
form: forgot
Etymology: From Middle English forgeten, forgiten, foryeten, forȝiten, from Old English forġietan (“to forget”) [influenced by Old Norse geta ("to get, to guess")], from Proto-West Germanic *fragetan (“to give up, forget”). Equivalent to for- + get.
Cognate with :
* Scots forget, forȝet (“to forget”),
* West Frisian fergette, ferjitte, forjitte (“to forget”),
* Dutch vergeten (“to forget”),
* German vergessen (“to forget”).
Senses: examples: text: I have forgotten most of the things I learned in school.
text: VVe (of all earthlings) are Gods vtmoſt ſubiects, the laſt (in a manner) that he bought to his obedience: ſhal we then forgette that vvee are any ſubiects of hys, becauſe (as amongſt his Angels) he is not viſibly conuerſant amongſt vs?
ref: 1593, Tho[mas] Nashe, Christs Teares Over Ierusalem. […], London: […] Iames Roberts, and are to be solde by Andrewe Wise, […], →OCLC, folio 60, verso:
text: For at least two hours the Boy loved him, and then Aunts and Uncles came to dinner, and there was a great rustling of tissue paper and unwrapping of parcels, and in the excitement of looking at all the new presents the Velveteen Rabbit was forgotten.
ref: 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: Technical terms like ferrite, perlite, graphite, and hardenite were bandied to and fro, and when Paget glibly brought out such a rare exotic as ferro-molybdenum, Benson forgot that he was a master ship-builder,[…]
ref: 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 4, in Well Tackled!:
text: Everybody, old and young, laughs uproariously at this and immediately forgets all about it.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 35:
text: In conditions of unlimited global-digital 'web-memory' (labelled by one critic a 'globital age'), social remembering and forgetting have become functions of algorithm-based search technologies that mine data from users […]
ref: 2018, Guy Beiner, Forgetful Remembrance, page 625:
glosses: To lose remembrance of.
examples: text: I forgot to buy flowers for my wife at our 14th wedding anniversary.
text: Pray, thou, therefore, to Slid, and forget not Slid, and it may be that Slid will not forget to send thee Death when most thou needest it.
ref: 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To unintentionally not do, neglect.
examples: text: I forgot my car keys in the living room.
glosses: To unintentionally leave something behind.
examples: text: Let's just forget I ever told you anything about it.
text: He forgot having already visited this city.
glosses: To cease remembering.
examples: text: People forget how much work goes into what we do.
glosses: To not realize something (regardless of whether one has ever known it).
examples: text: Forget you!
glosses: Euphemism for fuck, screw (a mild oath).
Synonyms: word: obliviate
word: overlook
word: pass over
word: disremember
word: forget
Hypernyms: word: lose
Hyponyms: word: mislay
word: misplace
Derived terms: and don't you forget it
don't forget to write
eaten bread is soon forgotten
fire and forget
foggetaboutit
forget about
forget about it
forgetful
forget it
forget-me-not
forgetness
forget oneself
forget one's manners
forgettability
forgettable
forgettance
forgetter
forgettery
forget to take one's medication this morning
forget to take one's pills this morning
forget you
forgive and forget
forgive but don't forget
lest we forget
not forgetting
right to be forgotten
set-and-forget
the Internet never forgets
un-forget
unforgettable
Related terms: word: slip someone's mind
word: memory
word: recollection