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Create air from Beethoven in recollection? Unable to recollect things
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forgetful
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Word definitions for forgetful in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES Mr Sarcasm/Mr Messy/Mr Forgetful etc EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ My grandfather's getting so forgetful - I have to remind him to take his medication. ▪ My grandfather is getting more forgetful . ▪ She was easily distracted ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from forget + -ful . A curious formation. Used in the sense "causing forgetting" from 1550s, but almost exclusively in poetry (Milton, Tennyson, etc.). An older word in this sense was Middle English forgetel , from Old English forgitel "forgetful," ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forgetful \For*get"ful\, a. Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory. Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers. --Heb. xiii. 2. Causing to forget; ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. not retentive [syn: unretentive ] [ant: retentive ] not mindful or attentive; "while thus unmindful of his steps he stumbled"- G.B.Shaw [syn: unmindful , mindless ] [ant: mindful ] failing to keep in mind; "forgetful of her responsibilities"; "oblivious ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 unable to remember things well; liable to forget. 2 (context math English) Dropping some of the input's structure or properties before producing an output.
Usage examples of forgetful.
Conrad could remember, and since he was both cheeseparing and forgetful of his appearance, his wig was badly made, ancient and ill-fitted.
Barenna was for the moment forgetful of her nerves in the excitement of despatching servants in advance to Toledo, where she owned a summer residence.
He shifted through the pages as Laevo began to extemporize, and eventually found the place and fed the forgetful actor his line.
But Ivra was neither so swift nor so skilled, and the leggins were dropped many times from forgetful hands because all her thoughts were gone away following the story.
For all that I wanted him muddleheaded and forgetful, I needed him potent.
The Nietzschean affirmative, forgetful of the original negative, disavows rebellion at the same time that it disavows the ethic that refuses to accept the world as it is.
Miss Ramsbottom was old and forgetful, and yet she might have been right and not Lance.
Liane shut the door behind her, and reapproached the bed, trembling with an anger that rendered her forgetful, so that she relapsed into French.
Pendergast toyed with the players, shifting Blackwood, Gerber, and Stayman conventions, positing a forgetful declarer, misunderstood signals between East and West.
I beheld our nation scattered, All forgetful of my counsels, Weakened, warring with each other: Saw the remnants of our people Sweeping westward, wild and woful, Like the cloud-rack of a tempest, Like the withered leaves of Autumn!
She gave me some of my worst beatings during that time, in the form of punishment for being so forgetful.
He complained that she was disorganised, forgetful, useless, a lousy housekeeper.
But that average man, forgetful of the multitude of yesterday and ungrateful, has none the less wrought into his very fibre and spirit the uncompromising individualism, the unconventional neighborliness, and the frontier fellowships of yesterday.
He half started from his chair, again resumed it, and gazing upon Stevens with the hate and agony which he felt, seemed to be entirely forgetful of the words and presence of the father.
Forgetful of the time when she had shown herself incapable of any deep response, he had persisted in connecting all his dreams of artistical success with Annie's image.