forget
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
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”).
Base: get
Affixes: for-
Inflected forms:
form: forgets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: forgetting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: forgot
pos: verb
tags: past
form: forgat
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
past
form: forgotten
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: forgot
pos: verb
tags: archaic
colloquial
participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To lose remembrance of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I have forgotten most of the things I learned in school.
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?
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.
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,[…]
Everybody, old and young, laughs uproariously at this and immediately forgets all about it.
Valentine’s Day means different things for different people. For Homer, it means forking over a hundred dollars for a dusty box of chocolates at the Kwik-E-Mart after characteristically forgetting the holiday yet again. For Ned, it’s another opportunity to prove his love for his wife. Most germane to the episode, for Lisa, Valentine’s Day means being the only person in her entire class to give Ralph a Valentine after noticing him looking crestfallen and alone at his desk.
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 […]
gloss: To unintentionally not do, neglect.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I forgot to buy flowers for my wife at our 14th wedding anniversary.
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.
gloss: To unintentionally leave something behind.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I forgot my car keys in the living room.
gloss: To cease remembering.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Let's just forget I ever told you anything about it.
He forgot having already visited this city.
gloss: To not realize something (regardless of whether one has ever known it).
pos: verb
tags: broadly
informal
transitive
examples: People forget how much work goes into what we do.
gloss: Euphemism for fuck, screw (a mild oath).
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: Forget you!
Synonyms: obliviate
overlook
pass over
disremember
forget
Antonyms: acquire
learn
mind
recall
recollect
remember
reminisce
Related words: slip someone's mind
memory
recollection
Derived words: 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
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