forgetive
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of forgetive
First recorded in 1590–1600; perhaps forge 1 + (cre)ative
Example Sentences
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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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