Forgetful
adjective
Not good at remembering things.
She is so forgetful, she often forgets her phone
adjective
Not giving thought or consideration to.
In his hurry, he was forgetful of his duties
Often appears as...
- forgetful of responsibilities
- forgetful of roles
adjective
Not good at remembering things.
She is so forgetful, she often forgets her phone
adjective
Not giving thought or consideration to.
In his hurry, he was forgetful of his duties
Often appears as...
- forgetful of responsibilities
- forgetful of roles
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Memory Lapses
Refers to accidental memory failures, often for trivial day-to-day things like keys or dates.
He was forgetful of his wedding anniversary again.
Pro Tip 2/3Habitual Forgetfulness
When someone regularly forgets things, it can imply a consistent trait rather than isolated incidents.
My grandmother has become quite forgetful lately.
Pro Tip 3/3Mild Annoyance
Can convey a slight frustration with someone's recurrent inability to remember.
You're always forgetful of where you put your glasses!
Pro Tip 1/3Memory Lapses
Refers to accidental memory failures, often for trivial day-to-day things like keys or dates.
He was forgetful of his wedding anniversary again.
Pro Tip 2/3Habitual Forgetfulness
When someone regularly forgets things, it can imply a consistent trait rather than isolated incidents.
My grandmother has become quite forgetful lately.
Pro Tip 3/3Mild Annoyance
Can convey a slight frustration with someone's recurrent inability to remember.
You're always forgetful of where you put your glasses!
Pro Tip 1/3Memory Lapses
Refers to accidental memory failures, often for trivial day-to-day things like keys or dates.
He was forgetful of his wedding anniversary again.
Pro Tip 2/3Habitual Forgetfulness
When someone regularly forgets things, it can imply a consistent trait rather than isolated incidents.
My grandmother has become quite forgetful lately.
Pro Tip 3/3Mild Annoyance
Can convey a slight frustration with someone's recurrent inability to remember.
You're always forgetful of where you put your glasses!
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Can you solve the...
and you're afraid that if your forgetfulness becomes known, you'll become part of the feast. The baker has meticulously prepared a small mountain range of a cake, and your job is to sculpt the giant’s age as the chocolate centerpiece. You would love to just count the candles on the cake, but you're much too small to see the top of it.
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Turning back the clock...
that get Alzheimer's disease but don't have these mutations how do we understand their disease this is currently a very difficult question because it's hard for us to predict who is actually going to progress from it all into Alzheimer's disease just because you're forgetful doesn't actually mean you're going to get all
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Onora O'Neill: What we...
in the relevant matters, and reliable and honest, we'll have a pretty good reason to trust them, because they'll be trustworthy. But if, on the other hand, they're unreliable, we might not. I have friends who are competent and honest, but I would not trust them to post a letter, because they're forgetful.
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How sound can hack your...
and they are easily lost and forgotten. But by reactivating them during sleep, even without us being aware, it seems like we could make them more stable and less prone to forgetting. That's pretty incredible. Our brains are still active even when we're not. So if you're like me and a bit forgetful,
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Diagnosing a zombie:...
to treat his epilepsy. But after the surgery, he couldn't remember any new information for longer than a few minutes. Zombies appear to be pretty forgetful, wouldn't you agree? Absolutely. Between the amygdala-related aggression, and memory deficits from the hippocampus,
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Rives: The Museum of...
It will take you at random to one of hundreds of snippets that are in the collection. Here is a knockout poem by Billy Collins called "Forgetfulness." Billy No wonder you rise in the middle of the night to look up the date of a famous battle in a book on war.
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Life at 30,000 feet PIPE...
that 25 years later -- that she'd actually knight us. But somehow, she must have had a forgetful memory, I think. Well, God saved her and you got your just reward. Do you like to be called Sir Richard, or how? Nobody's ever called me Sir Richard.
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We don't "move on" from...
and I've always thought that made me weird. And then I noticed that everybody does it. And it's not because we are in denial or because we're forgetful, it's because the people we love, who we've lost, are still so present for us.
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The messy truth about...
And then I noticed that everybody does it. And it's not because we are in denial or because we're forgetful, it's because the people we love, who we've lost, are still so present for us.
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Billy Collins: Everyday...
There's a horror movie in there somewhere. The next poem is called forgetfulness, and it's really just a kind of poetic essay
Video examples
Can you solve the...
and you're afraid that if your forgetfulness becomes known, you'll become part of the feast. The baker has meticulously prepared a small mountain range of a cake, and your job is to sculpt the giant’s age as the chocolate centerpiece. You would love to just count the candles on the cake, but you're much too small to see the top of it.
Video examples
Turning back the clock...
that get Alzheimer's disease but don't have these mutations how do we understand their disease this is currently a very difficult question because it's hard for us to predict who is actually going to progress from it all into Alzheimer's disease just because you're forgetful doesn't actually mean you're going to get all
Video examples
Onora O'Neill: What we...
in the relevant matters, and reliable and honest, we'll have a pretty good reason to trust them, because they'll be trustworthy. But if, on the other hand, they're unreliable, we might not. I have friends who are competent and honest, but I would not trust them to post a letter, because they're forgetful.
Video examples
How sound can hack your...
and they are easily lost and forgotten. But by reactivating them during sleep, even without us being aware, it seems like we could make them more stable and less prone to forgetting. That's pretty incredible. Our brains are still active even when we're not. So if you're like me and a bit forgetful,
Video examples
Diagnosing a zombie:...
to treat his epilepsy. But after the surgery, he couldn't remember any new information for longer than a few minutes. Zombies appear to be pretty forgetful, wouldn't you agree? Absolutely. Between the amygdala-related aggression, and memory deficits from the hippocampus,
Video examples
Rives: The Museum of...
It will take you at random to one of hundreds of snippets that are in the collection. Here is a knockout poem by Billy Collins called "Forgetfulness." Billy No wonder you rise in the middle of the night to look up the date of a famous battle in a book on war.
Video examples
Life at 30,000 feet PIPE...
that 25 years later -- that she'd actually knight us. But somehow, she must have had a forgetful memory, I think. Well, God saved her and you got your just reward. Do you like to be called Sir Richard, or how? Nobody's ever called me Sir Richard.
Video examples
We don't "move on" from...
and I've always thought that made me weird. And then I noticed that everybody does it. And it's not because we are in denial or because we're forgetful, it's because the people we love, who we've lost, are still so present for us.
Video examples
The messy truth about...
And then I noticed that everybody does it. And it's not because we are in denial or because we're forgetful, it's because the people we love, who we've lost, are still so present for us.
Video examples
Billy Collins: Everyday...
There's a horror movie in there somewhere. The next poem is called forgetfulness, and it's really just a kind of poetic essay
Example 1 of 10
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Jack London
American Novelist
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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Zane Grey
American Author
What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
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William Wordsworth
English Poet
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.
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Howard Nemerov
American Poet
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
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Sophocles
Greek Poet
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
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Ryan Tedder
American Musician
I'm terribly forgetful. I've lost laptops, cell-phones.
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Claudia Winkleman
English Entertainer
I have always been a little bit forgetful.
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Glen Campbell
American Musician
I've always been forgetful.
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Kate Nash
English Musician
I'm quite forgetful.
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Jack London
American Novelist
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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Zane Grey
American Author
What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
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William Wordsworth
English Poet
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.
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Howard Nemerov
American Poet
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
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Sophocles
Greek Poet
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
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Ryan Tedder
American Musician
I'm terribly forgetful. I've lost laptops, cell-phones.
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Claudia Winkleman
English Entertainer
I have always been a little bit forgetful.
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Glen Campbell
American Musician
I've always been forgetful.
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Kate Nash
English Musician
I'm quite forgetful.
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