forgetter
6.3
A person who often does not remember things
- noun
- /fərˈɡɛtər/
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olvidador
- She often misplaces her keys because she is a frequent forgetter.
Examples
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Being a chronic forgetter, she relies on her calendar to keep track of events.
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The ones who liked to remember just smiled and nodded, holding him off that private space that was all their own; the rest, the fanatical forgetters, stared at him coldly, or with derision, and sometimes told him that he was obsessed.
Fiction book (1990) -
As a notorious forgetter, he sometimes struggles to remember important dates.
Synonyms
1
7.0
A person who often forgets things and is easily distracted
focuses on repeated memory lapses rather than general disorganization
9.9
A person who acts foolishly or forgets things
emphasizes frequent memory failure without implying foolish or silly behaviour
Antonyms
How Confused
Surface Forms
forgetter singular
forgetters plural
Morphology
Etymology
Forgetter comes from the verb forget, which means 'to lose something in your mind', plus the ending -er meaning 'a person who does something'. So a forgetter is simply a person who often loses things or memories.