forgotten

[ fer-got-n ]

verb

1. a past participle of forget.

forgotten

/ fəˈɡɒtən /

verb

1. a past participle of forget

Usage Note

See forget.

Other Words From

• half-for·gotten adjective
• quasi-for·gotten adjective
• unfor·gotten adjective
• well-for·gotten adjective

Example Sentences

Yet they are convenient, at least as an expression of support for works that have a spark of something yet have somehow become forgotten, if they were ever appreciated at all.

From Time

It’s considered a bit old-fashioned and everyone’s sort of forgotten about it.

From The Daily Beast

To be sure, for many modern neuroscientists, Freud’s thought is dead, buried and best forgotten.

From Washington Post

Many others respond to the sudden proximity as if a forgotten, dust-covered cord had been plugged into a power source.

From ProPublica

The movie suggests, in a way, that memories are never completely lost, that it always remains possible to go back, even to people and places that seem long forgotten.

From Nautilus

But even though he has been disappeared, Castro is not forgotten.

From The Daily Beast

But the jokes flow at such a torrential pace that duds are soon forgotten; the best are even Spamalot-worthy.

From The Daily Beast

What often is forgotten—and what Beck could probably stand to remember—is that the massacre was, technically, a firefight.

From The Daily Beast

In the 54 years since they departed, Belgika has been forgotten by the outside world.

From The Daily Beast

Nerney fears that Foerster has otherwise been largely forgotten except by his family and fellow cops.

From The Daily Beast

"It is ill-fated;" and Alessandro blamed himself for having forgotten her only association with the name.

From Project Gutenberg

But don't go hunting after them, there are still modern Immortals in the darkness of a forgotten language.

From Project Gutenberg

Chief and most musical among these signs were the almost forgotten sounds of dropping water, and tinkling rills.

From Project Gutenberg

Ernest called out; "you have forgotten your money;" and he held out a purse, but the man was gone.

From Project Gutenberg

Pearson flung his knife and fork at it, having forgotten to drop those light weapons when he leaped up.

From Project Gutenberg