Etymology
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From un- + forget + -able.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
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unforgettable (comparative more unforgettable, superlative most unforgettable)
- Very difficult or impossible to forget.
- Synonyms: memorable; see also Thesaurus:memorable
- Antonym: forgettable
The things he subjected me to were horrible and unforgettable.
1903 July, Jack London, “The Law of Club and Fang”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 44:He had never seen dogs fight as these wolfish creatures fought, and his first experience taught him an unforgetable lesson. It is true, it was a vicarious experience, else he would not have lived to profit by it.
1961 July, J. Geoffrey Todd, “Impressions of railroading in the United States: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 419:The leading engine was one of the Class Y6 2-8-8-2 compound articulateds, [...] The stack noise of one of these great brutes slogging up a grade was quite unforgettable.
Translations
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very difficult or impossible to forget
- Adyghe: ащмыгъупшэжь (aśməğʷupšɛź)
- Albanian: paharrueshëm (sq)
- Arabic: غَيْر مَنْسِيّ (ḡayr mansiyy), لَا يُنْسَى (lā yunsā)
- Armenian: անմոռանալի (hy) (anmoṙanali), անմոռաց (hy) (anmoṙacʻ)
- Azerbaijani: unudulmaz
- Belarusian: незабыва́ны (njezabyvány), незабы́ўны (njezabýŭny), незабы́тны (njezabýtny)
- Bulgarian: незабрави́м (bg) (nezabravím)
- Catalan: inoblidable (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 難忘/难忘 (zh) (nánwàng), 不能忘的 (bù néng wàng de)
- Czech: nezapomenutelný
- Danish: uforglemmelig
- Dutch: onvergetelijk (nl)
- Esperanto: neforgesebla
- Estonian: unustamatu
- Finnish: ikimuistoinen (fi), unohtumaton (fi), mieleenpainuva
- French: inoubliable (fr)
- Galician: inesquecible (gl), inesquecíbel (gl)
- German: unvergesslich (de)
- Greek: αξέχαστος (el) (axéchastos), αλησμόνητος (el) (alismónitos)
- Hebrew: בִּלְתִּי נִשְׁכָּח
- Hungarian: felejthetetlen (hu)
- Irish: dodhearmadta
- Italian: indimenticabile (it)
- Japanese: 忘れられない (ja) (わすれられない, wasurerarenai), 忘れがたい (わすれがたい, wasuregatai)
- Korean: 잊을 수 없다 (ijeul su eopda), 잊지 못하다 (it-ji mothada)
- Latin: memorābilis, recordābilis
- Macedonian: незаборавен (nezaboraven)
- Malayalam: മറക്കാനാവാത്ത (maṟakkānāvātta), അവിസ്മരണീയ (ml) (avismaraṇīya)
- Manx: neuyarroodagh
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: uforglemmelig
- Nynorsk: ugløymeleg
- Polish: niezapomniany (pl)
- Portuguese: inesquecível (pt)
- Romanian: de neuitat, neuitabil
- Russian: незабыва́емый (ru) (nezabyvájemyj), незабве́нный (ru) (nezabvénnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: не̏забора̄ван
- Roman: nȅzaborāvan (sh)
- Slovak: nezabudnuteľný
- Slovene: nepozaben (sl)
- Spanish: inolvidable (es)
- Swedish: oförglömlig (sv)
- Telugu: మరిచిపోలేని (maricipōlēni)
- Turkish: unutulmaz
- Ukrainian: незабу́тній (nezabútnij)
- Uyghur: ئۇنتۇلماس (untulmas)
- Vietnamese: không thể quên
- Yiddish: אומפֿאַרגעסלעך (umfargeslekh)
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