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to disremember

to disremember

1 9.5
Fail to remember something you knew before
  • verb
  • /ˌdɪs.rɪˈmɛm.bər/
  • Archaic
translation icon : olvidar
  • I disremember who wrote it.

Examples

  • Sometimes, I disremember appointments that I had scheduled weeks ago.

  • And mostly what you disremember ain't worth the trouble to call it to mind. "I could get it back if I tried hard enough."

    Fiction book (1990)
  • I mean, to the point of making things up or disremembering?

    Fiction book (1999)
  • I disremember.

  • What I had disremembered was to phone Connie Garcia on Sunday as I had promised.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Now, she reads only American schlock pulp novels, romances—and she forgets, disremembers, she calls it.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • I often disremember where I put my keys before leaving the house.

  • It's easy to disremember small details when you're busy with other things.

Synonyms

to forget
vsto disremember
1.0

Not remember something you should remember

is the same meaning but uses an alternate single word form
to totally forgot
vsto disremember
  • Informal
30 1.8

Do not remember something at all

is the same action but can be less complete in degree
to totes forget
vsto disremember
  • Informal
9.9

To not remember something at all

is the same idea but expressed in casual informal language

Antonyms

1.0

To think about something from the past

2.4

Remember something from the past

How Well Remembered

to remember
1.0
to recall
2.4
to disremember
  • Archaic
1 9.5

Surface Forms

disremember infinitive
disremembered past participle
disremembering present participle
disremembers third person singular

Morphology

disremember = remember (transparent) = dis + remember

The meaning is a straightforward negative formation from 'remember', meaning 'fail to remember' or 'forget'.

Etymology

Disremember comes from the beginning part dis- meaning 'not' and the familiar word remember. So it literally means 'not remember' or to forget, like when you cannot find your keys.