Forgetful
[fə'getfʊl;-f(ə)l] or [fɚ'gɛtfəl]
Definition
(adj.) failing to keep in mind; 'forgetful of her responsibilities'; 'oblivious old age' .
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Definition
(a.) Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory.
(a.) Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive.
(a.) Causing to forget; inducing oblivion; oblivious.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Apt to forget.[2]. Negligent, inattentive, neglectful, careless, heedless, mindless.
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Examples
- After a debauch with some desperate woman, he went on quite easy and forgetful. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He is lying thus, apparently forgetful of his newer and minor surprise, when the housekeeper returns, accompanied by her trooper son. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I asked her how she came to be so forgetful as to leave the key on the outside of the ante-room. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- But sometimes she was forgetful--and sometimes, could it be that she was proud? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- My horse grew tired--and I, forgetful of his fatigue, still as he lagged, cheered him with my voice, and urged him with the spur. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She had burnt her fingers with Caliphronas; yet, quite forgetful of the warning, began to tease Maurice with charming persistence. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Every one of them is capable of cruelties and fine emotions, of despairs and devotions and self-forgetful effort. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One of the old ladies--Miss Noble, the aunt--is a wonderfully quaint picture of self-forgetful goodness, and Ladislaw gallants her about sometimes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They stood aside, forgetful. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The transition had been so sudden and so unexpected that it left me for a moment forgetful of aught else than my strange metamorphosis. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- And again, if he is forgetful and retains nothing of what he learns, will he not be an empty vessel? Plato. The Republic.
- Here the men, forgetful of the caution which had just been given them, began to draw. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Nor do I admire those whirligig characters that are full of this thing to-day, to be utterly forgetful of it in their new interest to-morrow. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I have pictured my daughter, to myself, as perfectly forgetful of me--rather, altogether ignorant of me, and unconscious of me. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- She was conscious of having been forgetful, awkward and slow to learn. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The poor little creature ran into my room quite forgetful of her usual dignity, and crying from her very heart of hearts, My dear Fitz Jarndyce! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She wondered how her father and mother could be so forgetful, so regardless of their companion through the day, as never to mention his name. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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