forgetive

[fawr-ji-tiv, fohr-]

adjective

Archaic.

1. inventive; creative.

Word History and Origins

Origin of forgetive¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; perhaps forge ¹ + (cre)ative

Example Sentences

The very brain of England must have become more “quick, nimble, and forgetive,” before the time of leisure came.

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With an understanding fertile, subtle, expansive, “quick, forgetive, apprehensive,” beyond all living precedent, few traces of it will perhaps remain.

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“Antony and Cleopatra,” iv, 14, 9. quick, forgetive.

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Being quick and forgetive in his mental operations, even while completing his toilet, he had formed a plan for an attack upon the kingdom of darkness lying around him.

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Howsoever "apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes" his brain may be, it never gambols from the superintendence of his reason and understanding.

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Related Words

• gifted 
• imaginative 
• ingenious 
• innovative 
• original 
• resourceful