forgotten
a past participle of forget.
usage note For forgotten
Other words from forgotten
- half-for·got·ten, adjective
- qua·si-for·got·ten, adjective
- un·for·got·ten, adjective
- well-for·got·ten, adjective
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How to use forgotten in a sentence
Yet they are convenient, at least as an expression of support for works that have a spark of something yet have somehow become forgotten, if they were ever appreciated at all.
It’s considered a bit old-fashioned and everyone’s sort of forgotten about it.
Make a Delicious Summery Spin on Custard This Weekend | Anna Archibald | July 30, 2021 | The Daily BeastTo be sure, for many modern neuroscientists, Freud’s thought is dead, buried and best forgotten.
Many others respond to the sudden proximity as if a forgotten, dust-covered cord had been plugged into a power source.
Inside the Capitol Riot: What the Parler Videos Reveal | by Alec MacGillis | January 17, 2021 | ProPublicaThe movie suggests, in a way, that memories are never completely lost, that it always remains possible to go back, even to people and places that seem long forgotten.
Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metamorphosis - Facts So Romantic | Marco Altamirano | October 20, 2020 | Nautilus
But even though he has been disappeared, Castro is not forgotten.
An Informant, a Missing American, and Juarez’s House of Death: Inside the 12-Year Cold Case of David Castro | Bill Conroy | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTBut the jokes flow at such a torrential pace that duds are soon forgotten; the best are even Spamalot-worthy.
What often is forgotten—and what Beck could probably stand to remember—is that the massacre was, technically, a firefight.
Glenn Beck Is Now Selling Hipster Clothes. Really. | Ana Marie Cox | December 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn the 54 years since they departed, Belgika has been forgotten by the outside world.
Nerney fears that Foerster has otherwise been largely forgotten except by his family and fellow cops.
"It is ill-fated;" and Alessandro blamed himself for having forgotten her only association with the name.
Ramona | Helen Hunt JacksonBut don't go hunting after them, there are still modern Immortals in the darkness of a forgotten language.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation | H. G. (Herbert George) WellsChief and most musical among these signs were the almost forgotten sounds of dropping water, and tinkling rills.
The Giant of the North | R.M. BallantyneErnest called out; "you have forgotten your money;" and he held out a purse, but the man was gone.
Pearson flung his knife and fork at it, having forgotten to drop those light weapons when he leaped up.
Hunting the Lions | R.M. Ballantyne
British Dictionary definitions for forgotten
/ (fəˈɡɒtən) /
a past participle of forget
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