English Online Dictionary. What means forget? What does forget mean?
English
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fəˈɡɛt/, (less commonly:) /fɔːˈɡɛt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /fɚˈɡɛt/, (less commonly:) /fɔɹˈɡɛt/
- Hyphenation: for‧get
- Rhymes: -ɛt
Verb
forget (third-person singular simple present forgets, present participle forgetting, simple past forgot or (obsolete) forgat, past participle forgotten or (archaic or colloquial) forgot)
- (transitive) To lose remembrance of.
- (transitive) To unintentionally not do, neglect.
- (transitive) To unintentionally leave something behind.
- (intransitive) To cease remembering.
- (transitive, loosely, informal) To not realize something (regardless of whether one has ever known it).
- (slang) Euphemism for fuck, screw (a mild oath).
Usage notes
- In sense 1 and 4 this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing).
- In sense 2 this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive.
- See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Synonyms
- obliviate, overlook, pass over, disremember
Antonyms
- acquire, learn, mind, recall, recollect, remember, reminisce
Derived terms
Translations
References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “forget”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “forget”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.