forgotten
Americanverb
verb
Usage
See forget.
Other Word Forms
Explanation
Something that's forgotten isn't remembered or considered. Your forgotten mail might sit in the mailbox all weekend, if you simply don't think about it. Your English teacher might reassure you that the bad grade you got on a paper last month is forgotten, and you could find that as you start reading a great book, your difficult day is forgotten. In both cases, something is overlooked, disregarded or erased from memory. Forgotten comes from forget, from the Old English forgietan, "fail to remember" or "neglect inadvertently."
Example Sentences
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Despite AI stocks taking the role that cryptocurrency has occupied in recent years—a high-risk source for exponential growth— cryptocurrency hasn’t been forgotten.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
However, like many other female artists, she was largely forgotten, as fashions changed and some of her portraits were re-attributed to male artists.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Do you sometimes buy books that you’ve forgotten you already have?
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
In a closing monologue, Odysseus looks ahead to the collapse of the Bronze Age, imagining a future in which his world and everything that happened to him will be forgotten.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Too late, he remembered the neat bundles of dried deer meat, forgotten at the shelter.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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