Pronunciations (2)
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/fəˈɡɛti/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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/fɚˈɡɛti/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
Adjective
Tending to forget things, forgetful.
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Please tell me what is D. F.’s name? I ought to remember but am so “forgetty”!
In a state of forgetting, having forgotten.
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We are over here, I see that, and all that is over there, and this over hereness and that over thereness is a small part of infinite other relations of hereness and thereness, I see all this, but then I get a bit forgetty, and, just, don’t have this particular-in-aggregate setup in my head, and I say something like “I forget where we are.”
Noun
A person whose memory has been erased or damaged.
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Forgetties were barely above underpeople in status. They were persons convicted of various major crimes, to whom the courts of the worlds, or the Instrumentality, had allowed total amnesia instead of death or some punishment worse than death
Alma came out of the cube Finisternis as a forgetty, conditioned to remember nothing of her long sad psychotic life before the Instrumentality had sent her on a wild mission among the stars.
She had thought in the past of autoforgetting with dread and fear, feeling something unclean and wretched about being a forgetty. But there was something worse, a whole universe of somethings-worse.
“You ever been feverish before?” “Once. I only forgot about a year and a half.” […] “I’ll be a fresh forgetty in a day or two, and you don’t keep somebody in jail when they don’t even remember breaking the law.”