forget

Meaning

Verb

• To lose remembrance of.
• To unintentionally not do, neglect.
• To unintentionally leave something behind.
• To cease remembering.
• fuck, screw .

Related

Similar words

• obliviate, overlook, pass over, disremember

Opposite words

• acquire, learn, mind, recall, recollect, remember, reminisce

Origin

• 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,
• West Frisian fergette, ferjitte, forjitte,
• Dutch vergeten ("to forget"),
• German vergessen ("to forget").