Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Past participle of forget.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • p. p. of forget.

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  • adjective Of which knowledge has been lost, which is no longer remembered.
  • verb Past participle of forget
  • noun A person or thing that has been forgotten.

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  • adjective not noticed inadvertently

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Examples

  • To prove to you that I had not forgotten you before your letter came, here is the fragment of an unfinished one which I send you, to begin with -- an imperfect fossil letter, which no comparative anatomy will bring much sense out of -- except the plain fact _that you were not forgotten_ ....

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) 1907

  • "I have never forgotten -- never -- never _forgotten_!" faltered Madeleine, in a voice that had a sound of tears, answering to those that glittered in her eyes.

    Fairy Fingers A Novel Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie 1844

  • Back in the day, Tosches wrote a column for Creem Magazine called Unsung Heroes, in which he profiled what he called "forgotten rhythm-and-blues and country renegades."

    Holly Cara Price: Great Rock & Roll Reads for the Fall Holly Cara Price 2011

  • Back in the day, Tosches wrote a column for Creem Magazine called Unsung Heroes, in which he profiled what he called "forgotten rhythm-and-blues and country renegades."

    Holly Cara Price: Great Rock & Roll Reads for the Fall Holly Cara Price 2011

  • Back in the day, Tosches wrote a column for Creem Magazine called Unsung Heroes, in which he profiled what he called "forgotten rhythm-and-blues and country renegades."

    Holly Cara Price: Great Rock & Roll Reads for the Fall Holly Cara Price 2011

  • Back in the day, Tosches wrote a column for Creem Magazine called Unsung Heroes, in which he profiled what he called "forgotten rhythm-and-blues and country renegades."

    Holly Cara Price: Great Rock & Roll Reads for the Fall Holly Cara Price 2011

  • For this world, warm in the middle and my name forgotten, I have to run and give these daffodil prisms to the poor that I took from the dead.

    Bear Circuit Jesse Crockett 2011

  • Back in the day, Tosches wrote a column for Creem Magazine called Unsung Heroes, in which he profiled what he called "forgotten rhythm-and-blues and country renegades."

    Holly Cara Price: Great Rock & Roll Reads for the Fall Holly Cara Price 2011

  • FDR ` s entire appeal was to what he called the forgotten man, these guys who were left behind in the switches of industrial capitalism and all the rest.

    CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2008 2008

  • As we mentioned, McCain spending this week campaigning in what he calls the forgotten areas of America, trying to convince voters he's a different kind of Republican candidate.

    CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2008 2008

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