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forget¹

  • /fəˈɡɛt/ UK
  • /fɚˈɡɛt/ US

Rhymes with -ɛt

Where it comes from

From Middle English forgeten, forgiten, foryeten, forȝiten, from Old English forġietan (“to forget”) [influenced by Old Norse geta ("to get, to guess")], from Proto-West Germanic *fragetan (“to give up, forget”). Equivalent to for- + get.

Cognate with :

* Scots forget, forȝet (“to forget”),

* West Frisian fergette, ferjitte, forjitte (“to forget”),

* Dutch vergeten (“to forget”),

* German vergessen (“to forget”).

verb forgets · forgetting · forgot · forgat · forgotten

  1. transitive To lose remembrance of. I have forgotten most of the things I learned in school.
  2. transitive To unintentionally not do, neglect. I forgot to buy flowers for my wife at our 14th wedding anniversary.
  3. transitive To unintentionally leave something behind. I forgot my car keys in the living room.
  4. intransitive To cease remembering. Let's just forget I ever told you anything about it.

    Similar: leave behind

  5. broadly, informal, transitive To not realize something (regardless of whether one has ever known it). People forget how much work goes into what we do.
  6. slang Euphemism for fuck, screw (a mild oath). Forget this, I'm done!

Similar: obliviate, overlook, pass over, disremember, forget · Opposite: acquire, learn, mind, recall, recollect, remember, reminisce

Forget²

proper noun Forgets

  1. A surname.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: blank out, leave, bury, block, ignore, disregard, neglect, oblivious, miss, fail, underestimate, not, obscure, omit, overlooked, distract

verb

Similar: obliviate, overlook, pass over, disremember, forget · Opposite: acquire, learn, mind, recall, recollect, remember, reminisce

Translations

Every language

verb to leave behind

Españoldejar, olvidar, olvidarse
日本語忘れる wasureru
Françaisoublier
Deutschverlegen, vergessen
Ελληνικάξεχνώ xechnó, λησμονώ lismonó
Русскийзабыва́ть zabyvátʹ, забы́ть zabýtʹ
Tiếng Việtquên
العربيةنَسِيَ nasiya

verb to lose remembrance of

Españololvidar, olvidarse, desmemoriarse
한국어잊다 itda, 잊어버리다 ijeobeorida, 까먹다 kkameokda
日本語忘れる wasureru
中文忘記 /忘记 wàngjì, 忘 wàng, 忘掉 wàngdiào
हिन्दीभूलना bhūlnā, भूल जाना bhūl jānā
Kiswahili-sahau
Portuguêsesquecer
Françaisoublier, essoubler (Saint-Étienne dialect)
Deutschverlernen, vergessen
Italianodimenticare, scordare
Ελληνικάξεχνώ xechnó, λησμονώ lismonó
Românăuita
Русскийзабыва́ть zabyvátʹ, забы́ть zabýtʹ
Tiếng Việtquên
العربيةنَسِيَ nasiya
עבריתשָׁכַח shakhákh

verb to unintentionally not do

Españololvidar, olvidarse
日本語忘れる wasureru
中文忽略 hūlüè
Portuguêsesquecer
Françaisoublier
Deutschvergessen
Italianodimenticare
Ελληνικάξεχνώ xechnó
Românăuita
Русскийзабыва́ть zabyvátʹ, забы́ть zabýtʹ
Tiếng Việtquên
العربيةنَسِيَ nasiya

verb to cease remembering

Españololvidar, olvidarse, olvidodesmemoriarse
日本語忘れる wasureru
中文忘記 /忘记 wàngjì
Portuguêsesquecer
Françaisoublier
Deutschvergessen
Ελληνικάξεχνώ xechnó
Românăuita
Русскийзабыва́ть zabyvátʹ, забы́ть zabýtʹ
Tiếng Việtquên
العربيةنَسِيَ nasiya

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@misc{forget_2026,
  title = {forget},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/forget},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}