forget — English Dictionary

Verb

1. To lose remembrance of.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

   I forgot her name.

   I have forgotten most of the things I learned in school.

   More examples (3)

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   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.

   More examples (2)

   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 […]

2. To unintentionally not do, neglect.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

   I forgot to buy milk.

   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.

3. To unintentionally leave something behind.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

   I forgot my umbrella on the train.

   I forgot my car keys in the living room.

4. To cease remembering.

   Usage

   • Intransitive

   Synonyms

   leave behind

   Examples

   Let's just forget I ever told you anything about it.

   He forgot having already visited this city.

5. To not realize something (regardless of whether one has ever known it).

   Usage

   • broadly
   • Informal
   • Transitive

   Examples

   People forget how much work goes into what we do.

6. Euphemism for fuck, screw (a mild oath).

   Usage

   • Slang

   Examples

   Forget this, I'm done!

Verb

1. dismiss from the mind; stop remembering

   Synonyms

   bury

   Antonyms

   remember

   Broader terms

   lose

   Examples

   I tried to bury these unpleasant memories

2. be unable to remember

   Synonyms

   blockblank outdraw a blank

   Antonyms

   remember

   Broader terms

   thinkcogitatecerebrate

   Examples

   I'm drawing a blank

   You are blocking the name of your first wife!

3. forget to do something

   Antonyms

   mind

   Broader terms

   neglectpretermitomitdropmissleave outoverlookoverleap

   Examples

   Don't forget to call the chairman of the board to the meeting!

4. leave behind unintentionally

   Synonyms

   leave

   Broader terms

   lose

   Examples

   I forgot my umbrella in the restaurant

   I left my keys inside the car and locked the doors