🤦 A forgetful person 🧠 One who erases memories 💊 A memory eraser

forgetter

8.8

A person who makes other people stop remembering things

noun
/fərˈɡɛtər/

: olvidador

The skilled interrogator acted as a forgetter, making witnesses question their own memories.

Examples

In the story, the magician was known as a forgetter who could erase memories with a word.
Some believe that time itself is the greatest forgetter of all our troubles.
She is a skilled forgetter of painful memories.
He has become a notorious forgetter in our group.
The skilled interrogator acted as a forgetter, making witnesses question their own memories.
In the story, the magician was known as a forgetter who could erase memories with a word.
The therapist helped her clients become forgetters of their traumatic experiences through guided sessions.

Antonyms

reminder

342 1.0

Something that helps you remember things you must do or facts

Surface Forms

forgetter singular

forgetters plural

Morphology

forgetter = forget (semi-transparent) = forget + er

Morphologically regular ('forget' + '-er'), but the sense 'one who causes others to forget' is a semantic extension from the usual agent meaning and may not be directly inferred by all learners.

Etymology

Forgetter can also mean a person who makes others forget; it is built from forget ('to lose from the mind') and -er ('a person who does something'). So think of a forgetter as someone who causes memories to disappear.