From Middle English *forgetful, *forȝetful (suggested by derivative forgetfulnesse, forȝetfulnesse (“forgetfulness”)), equivalent to forget + -ful.
forgetful (comparative more forgetful, superlative most forgetful)
- Unable to remember things well; liable to forget.
1912, William Sharp, Elizabeth Amelia Sharp, Poems and Dramas, William Heinemann, page 315:Nor has Dalua part or mention in the antique legend. Like other ancient things, this divinity hath come secretly upon us in a forgetful time, new and strange and terrible, though his unremembered shadow crossed our way when first we set out on our long travel, in the youth of the world.
- (mathematics) Dropping some of the input's structure or properties before producing an output.
- a forgetful mapping; a forgetful functor
liable to forget
- Arabic: نَسَّاء (ar) (nassāʔ), نَسِيّ (nasiyy)
- Bulgarian: забравящ (bg) (zabravjašt), разсеян (bg) (razsejan)
- Catalan: oblidadís, oblidós
- Cebuano: bungaw
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 健忘 (zh) (jiànwàng), 丟三落四/丢三落四 (zh) (diūsānlàsì)
- Czech: zapomnětlivý
- Danish: glemsom (da)
- Dutch: vergeetachtig (nl)
- Finnish: huonomuistinen (fi)
- French: oublieux (fr)
- German: vergesslich (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἐπιλήσμων (epilḗsmōn)
- Hindi: भुलक्कड (hi) (bhulakkaḍ)
- Hungarian: feledékeny (hu)
- Indonesian: pelupa (id)
- Irish: dearmadach
- Italian: smemorato (it)
- Japanese: 忘れっぽい (wasureppoi)
- Kazakh: ұмытқан (ūmytqan)
- Latin: oblīviōsus, immemor
- Latvian: aizmāršīgs, aizmirsīgs
- Maori: wareware, māhungawai
- Norman: oublieux
- Norwegian: glemsom
- Nynorsk: gløymsk, gløymsam
- Occitan: oblidós
- Ottoman Turkish: اونوتغان (unutgan)
- Polish: zapominalski (pl)
- Portuguese: esquecido (pt), esquecidiço, esquecediço
- Romanian: uituc (ro) m
- Russian: забы́вчивый (ru) (zabývčivyj)
- Spanish: olvidadizo (es), desmemoriado (es)
- Swedish: glömsk (sv)
- Turkish: unutkan (tr)
- Ukrainian: забу́дькуватий (zabúdʹkuvatyj)
- Urdu: بُھلَکَّڑ (bhulakkaṛ)
- Uzbek: unutqan (uz)
- Welsh: anghofus (cy)
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