half-remembered

British  

adjective

1. (of a memory, idea, etc) partially remembered or recalled

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Example Sentences

At its best, when theme and visuals are in sync, “Arco” has the easy charm of something half-remembered from one’s cartoon-packed youth: beguilingly earnest and awkward in equal measure.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2026

The rest of the time, though, things are pretty but unfocused, like dreams that are half-remembered, not tangible enough to incur real meaning.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2025

I didn't want to hear the pseudo-intellectual assertion that you must "separate the art from the artist" in response, a claim rooted in half-remembered English lit classes.

From Salon • Oct. 7, 2022

Her lyrics are vulnerable but uncomplicated, as raw as journal jottings, or as slippery half-remembered inspirational quotes that floated out of the Internet and into the forefront of her consciousness.

From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2021

When her father put the receiver down, Mary Anne, whispering a tuneless half-remembered melody, thumbed through the telephone directory, and with her pen, marked the number of the Ravenel Air Station’s Officers’ Club.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy