Reverse Dictionary: FORGET

ADJECTIVES
► BUZZED OUT dreamily or eerily out of touch with reality; disoriented, forgetful, dazed → 1980 Amer. sl.
► ELAPSIVE apt to let slip, forgetting, forgetful → 1652 obs.
► GATTLE-HEADED forgetful, careless, thoughtless → 1851 Eng. dial.
► IMMEMOR unmindful, forgetful → 1535 Sc. obs.
► IMMEMORIOUS unmindful, forgetful → 1602 obs.
► LETHEAN pert. to or causing oblivion or forgetfulness of the past → c1645
► LETHY causing oblivion or forgetfulness of the past → 1613 obs.
► NODDLE-HEADED confused, forgetful → 1878 sl.
► OBLIVISCIBLE able or likely to be forgotten, forgettable → 1905
► OFF ONE’S KNOW out of one’s mind; forgetful from a failing memory → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► SHORT IN ONE’S MIND forgetful → 1908 Amer. dial.
► STUCK OUT lazy, forgetful; deprived → 1970s US prison sl.

NOUNS
► ILL-MINDINGS forgetfulness → 1863 Sc.
► LETHE in Greek mythology: a river in Hades, the water of which produced, in those who drank it, forgetfulness of the past; hence, the ‘waters of oblivion’ or forgetfulness of the past → 1567
► OBLIVISCENCE the fact of forgetting or state of having forgotten; forgetfulness → 1774
► OBLIVIUM oblivion; forgetfulness → 1699 obs.
► OUBLIANCE  forgetting, forgetfulness, oblivion → c1477 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► GARTLE-HEAD ► GATTLE-HEAD ► GUTTLE-HEAD a heedless, forgetful person; a thoughtless person → 1691 Eng. dial. obs.
► LEATHER-LAPS a forgetful person → Bk1902 Eng. dial.
► NOODLE a stupid, unthinking, or forgetful person → Bk1974 Amer. colloq.
► OBLIVIONIST one who holds a theory of, or favours, oblivion; one who forgets → 1658-9
► SIEVE-HEAD a forgetful person → Brit. sl.

PHRASES
► HE WOULD LOSE HIS ARSE IF IT WAS LOOSE refers to a careless person, esp. a very forgetful one → L18

VERBS
► BEGET to forget → 1746 Eng. dial.
► CHECK OUT to forget or ignore something, often deliberately → 1996 UK sl.
► DISRECOLLECT to forget, to fail to remember → 1940 Amer. dial.
► DISREMEMBER to forget, to be unable to remember → 1815
► DRAW A BLANK to forget suddenly → Bk1995 US sl.
► HAVE A HEAD LIKE A SIEVE to be very forgetful → 1984 sl.
► HAVE A MIND LIKE A SIEVE to be very forgetful → 1893 sl.
► MADDLE to become confused or bewildered; to forget → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► MISREMEMBER to forget → 1856 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► OBLIGHT to forget → 1547 obs.
► OBLITE to forget → 1547 obs.
► OBLIVE to forget → c1500 obs.
► OBLIVIATE to forget, to commit to oblivion → 1661 obs.
► SPONGE IT OUT to forget something; to wipe something from one’s memory → L19 US sl.
► TINE to let slip from one’s remembrance; to forget → 1513 chiefly Sc. & Eng. dial.
► UNBETHINK to forget → 1825 Eng. dial.
► WANT to fail to recollect, to forget → c1381 obs.