Word Meanings - FORGET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

AS. forgietan, forgitan; pref. for- + gietan, gitan , to get; cf. D. vergeten, G. vergessen, Sw. förgäta, Dan. forgiette. 1. To lose the remembrance of; to let go from the memory; to cease to have in mind; not to think of; also, to lose the

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AS. forgietan, forgitan; pref. for- + gietan, gitan , to get; cf. D. vergeten, G. vergessen, Sw. förgäta, Dan. forgiette. 1. To lose the remembrance of; to let go from the memory; to cease to have in mind; not to think of; also, to lose the power of; to cease from doing. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Ps. ciii. Let y right hand forget her cunning. Ps. cxxxvii. 5. Hath thy knee forget to bow Shak. 2. To treat with inattention or disregard; to slight; to neglect. Can a woman forget her sucking child . . . Yes, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Is. xlix. 15. To forget one's self. To become unmindful of one's own personality; to be lost in thought. To be entirely unselfish. To be guilty of what is unworthy of one; to lose one's dignity, temper, or self-control.

Related words: (words related to FORGET)

• THINKING
  Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.
• GITANA; GITANO
  A Spanish gypsy.
• CEASELESS
  Without pause or end; incessant.
• THINK
  confounded with OE. thenken to think, fr. AS. þencean ; akin to D. denken, dunken, OS. thenkian, thunkian, G. denken, dünken, Icel. þekkja to perceive, to know, þykkja to seem, Goth. þagkjan, þaggkjan, to think, þygkjan to think, to seem,
• THINKER
  One who thinks; especially and chiefly, one who thinks in a particular manner; as, a close thinker; a deep thinker; a coherent thinker.
• THINKABLE
  Capable of being thought or conceived; cogitable. Sir W. Hamilton.
• REMEMBRANCER
  1. One who, or that which, serves to bring to, or keep in, mind; a memento; a memorial; a reminder. Premature consiolation is but the remembrancer of sorrow. Goldsmith. Ye that are the lord's remembrancers. Isa. lxii. 6. . 2. A term applied in
• MEMORY
  F. mémoire, L. memoria, fr. memor mindful; cf. mora delay. Cf. Demur, 1. The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events. Memory is the purveyor of reason. Rambler. 2. The reach
• REMEMBRANCE
  1. The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection. Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage. Milton. Lest the remembrance of his grief should fail. Addison. 2. The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory;
• CEASE
  1. To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased "To cease from strife." Prov. xx. 3. 2. To be wanting; to fail; to pass away. The poor shall never cease out of the land. Deut. xv. 11. Syn. -- To intermit;
• MISTHINK
  To think wrongly. "Adam misthought of her." Milton.
• UNREMEMBRANCE
  Want of remembrance; forgetfulness. I. Watts.
• METHINKS
  It seems to me; I think. See Me. In all ages poets have been had in special reputation, and, methinks, not without great cause. Spenser. (more info) me þynceedh, me þuhte, OE. me thinketh, me thoughte; akin to G.
• INCOGITANTLY
  In an incogitant manner.
• UNTHINKER
  A person who does not think, or does not think wisely.
• SURCEASEANCE
  Cessation.
• FORTHINK
  To repent; to regret; to be sorry for; to cause regret. "Let it forthink you." Tyndale. That me forthinketh, quod this January. Chaucer.
• INCOGITANCE; INCOGITANCY
  Want of thought, or of the power of thinking; thoughtlessness; unreasonableness. 'T is folly and incogitancy to argue anything, one way or the other, from the designs of a sort of beings with whom we so little communicate. Glanvill.
• FREETHINKING
  Undue boldness of speculation; unbelief. Berkeley. -- a.
• UNBETHINK
  To change the mind of .
• PREDECEASE
  To die sooner than. "If children predecease progenitors." Shak.
• FREETHINKER
  One who speculates or forms opinions independently of the authority of others; esp., in the sphere or religion, one who forms opinions independently of the authority of revelation or of the church; an unbeliever; -- a term assumed by deists and
• UNTHINK
  To recall or take back, as something thought. Shak.
• DECEASED
  Passed away; dead; gone. The deceased, the dead person.