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forgetful, a.|fəˈgɛtfʊl|
[f. forget v. + -ful.]
1. Apt, inclined, or liable to forget; having a bad memory. Also, that forgets: const. of.
1382Wyclif Jas. i. 25 Not maad a forȝetful herer, but a doer of werk. c1449Pecock Repr. ii. v. 165 We ben ful freel and forȝeteful. 1509Fisher Fun. Serm. C'tess Richmond Wks. (1876) 291 She wolde not be..forgetefull of ony kyndnes or seruyce done to her before. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. iv. iii. 255 Beare with me good Boy, I am much forgetfull. 1794Coleridge Death of Chatterton 115 Wisely forgetful. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xiv. 97 Forgetful of the glory of the past.
2. Heedless, neglectful. Const. of or inf.
1526–34Tindale Heb. xiii. 2 Be not forgetfull to lodge straungers. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 709 Th' unwary Lover cast his Eyes behind, Forgetful of the Law. 1720Prior Horace i. ix. 16, I..intend To serve myself, forgetful of my Friend. 1859Tennyson Enid 53 Forgetful of his glory and his name.
3. That causes to forget, inducing oblivion. Chiefly poet. (Cf. oblivious.)
1557Tottell's Misc. (Arb.) 271 Reason runnes about, To seke forgetfull water. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 74 If the sleepy drench Of that forgetful Lake benumme not still. 1697Dryden æneid vi. 1017 Compell'd to drink the deep Lethean Flood, In large forgetful draughts. 1787Generous Attachm. I. 157 The self same bed..once received an honoured parent..to its soft forgetful down. 1850Tennyson In Mem. xxxv, The sound of that forgetful shore.
Hence forˈgetfully adv., in a forgetful manner.
a1716South Serm. (1744) VIII. xiv. 416 It is our duty..forgetfully, to accept the oppression. 1731Boyse From C. Dryden's Horti Arlingtoniani Poems 36 Through the Maze forgetfully they stray. 1859Cornwallis New World I. 70 One of them having forgetfully left his umbrella behind him. |