Forgetful

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Forgetful \For*get"ful\, a.
     1. Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful
        man should use helps to strengthen his memory.
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     2. Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive.


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              Be not forgetful to entertain strangers. --Heb.
                                                    xiii. 2.
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     3. Causing to forget; inducing oblivion; oblivious. [Archaic
        or Poetic] "The forgetful wine." --J. Webster.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  forgetful
       adj 1: not retentive [syn: {unretentive}] [ant: {retentive}]
       2: not mindful or attentive; "while thus unmindful of his steps
          he stumbled"- G.B.Shaw [syn: {unmindful}, {mindless}]
          [ant: {mindful}]
       3: failing to keep in mind; "forgetful of her
          responsibilities"; "oblivious old age" [syn: {oblivious}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  67 Moby Thesaurus words for "forgetful":
     Lethean, absent, absent-minded, absentminded, abstracted, airy,
     amnesiac, amnestic, bemused, blocked, careless, casual, converted,
     cursory, degage, disregardant, disregardful, distracted, dreaming,
     dreamy, easygoing, flippant, forgetting, free and easy, heedless,
     in the clouds, inattentive, inclined to forget, inconsiderate,
     indifferent, insouciant, lax, lazy, mindless, neglectful,
     negligent, oblivious, offhand, out of it, perfunctory, preoccupied,
     reckless, regardless, remiss, remote, repressed, respectless,
     slack, suppressed, tactless, thoughtless, unaccommodating,
     uncomplaisant, uncooperative, undiplomatic, unheedful, unheeding,
     unhelpful, unmindful, unobliging, unprepared, unready,
     unsolicitous, untactful, unthinking, unthoughtful, unwitting