forgotten
Not remembered; lapsed from memory.
How often you will meet it
Rank 868 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 21,145 times across 175,160 chapters — 0.010% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- Not remembered; lapsed from memory.
forgotten in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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At any rate, I've forgotten all I knew.'
The Little Nugget · P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse · Chapter 1
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I declare for it, I had forgotten it.
Following the Equator — Part 1 · Mark Twain · Chapter 1
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They had forgotten their anger, and their bitter resentment for their lost money.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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The girl, who had not forgotten, either, went to a luncheon and the theatre after.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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Had she in some forgotten dream Let go her hold on Heaven, And sold herself unwittingly To spirits unforgiven?
Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From — Volume I · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1