Forgetful \For*get"ful\, a.
1. Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful
man should use helps to strengthen his memory.
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2. Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive.
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Be not forgetful to entertain strangers. --Heb.
xiii. 2.
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3. Causing to forget; inducing oblivion; oblivious. [Archaic
or Poetic] "The forgetful wine." --J. Webster.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
forgetful
adj 1: not retentive [syn: unretentive] [ant: retentive]
2: not mindful or attentive; "while thus unmindful of his steps
he stumbled"- G.B.Shaw [syn: unmindful, mindless]
[ant: mindful]
3: failing to keep in mind; "forgetful of her
responsibilities"; "oblivious old age" [syn: oblivious]
WordNet (r) 2.0
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "forgetful":
Lethean, absent, absent-minded, absentminded, abstracted, airy,
amnesiac, amnestic, bemused, blocked, careless, casual, converted,
cursory, degage, disregardant, disregardful, distracted, dreaming,
dreamy, easygoing, flippant, forgetting, free and easy, heedless,
in the clouds, inattentive, inclined to forget, inconsiderate,
indifferent, insouciant, lax, lazy, mindless, neglectful,
negligent, oblivious, offhand, out of it, perfunctory, preoccupied,
reckless, regardless, remiss, remote, repressed, respectless,
slack, suppressed, tactless, thoughtless, unaccommodating,
uncomplaisant, uncooperative, undiplomatic, unheedful, unheeding,
unhelpful, unmindful, unobliging, unprepared, unready,
unsolicitous, untactful, unthinking, unthoughtful, unwitting
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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