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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Slice up cucumbers, red onions, carrots, radishes, jalapeños — whatever vegetables you have hovering on the edge of being forgotten — and drop them into the jar.
From Salon • May 28, 2026
Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers were a few weeks into scripting their upcoming awards show when it hit them: They’d forgotten about the Coldplay kiss-cam couple.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
Singer, rapper and actor Bad Bunny is getting a slice of the action in the new Toy Story film, making a cameo as the voice of a forgotten toy known as Pizza With Sunglasses.
From BBC • May 27, 2026
At the end, a line of people stood blinking at the world, amazed at the clarity and detail many had forgotten or, for some, had never known.
From Barron's • May 27, 2026
Or had Tiamat just been so distracted by shedding her skin that she had forgotten to make herself invisible?
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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