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What is the adjective for forgetting?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs forget and unforget which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

forgetful
  1. unable to remember things well; liable to forget.
  2. Synonym of forgettable
  3. (mathematics) Dropping some of the input's structure or properties before producing an output.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. amnesic, amnesiac, amnemonic, amnestic, absentminded, scatterbrained, absent-minded, apt to forget, with a mind like a sieve, with a memory like a sieve, abstracted, dreamy, vague, inattentive, woolgathering, absent, distracted, preoccupied, airheaded, insensible, mooning, moony, wandering, pipe dreaming, out of it, out to lunch, looking out window, oblivious, faraway, unaware, heedless, daydreaming, absorbed, pensive, distrait, scatty, distant, musing, engrossed, lost, bemused, unmindful, ditzy, unheeding, unthinking, removed, inconscient, wool-gathering … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “A lot of guys tended to be forgetful when it came to special occasions.”
      “When in bed he remained for some time awake, in a forgetful state, his thoughts interrupted and difficult to recover.”
      “Overworked or forgetful staff may fail to complete rounds.”
forgotten
  1. Of which knowledge has been lost; which is no longer remembered.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. unremembered, bygone, lost, past, disregarded, buried, disremembered, erased, lapsed, repressed, unrecalled, suppressed, blotted out, gone clean out of someone's mind, left behind, out of mind, consigned to oblivion, past recollection, blanked out, deserted, abandoned, forsaken, vacant, desolate, vacated, rejected, derelict, disused, void, neglected, godforsaken, discarded, shunned, dumped, jilted, uninhabited, dropped, empty, cast off, solitary, left, unoccupied, left in the lurch, stranded, cast aside, outcast, isolated, ditched, lonely, relinquished … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Here are queens who have been long forgotten, overlooked, unfairly maligned or simply dismissed as mere bit-players on the world stage.”
      “Ghost stories abound wherever there is an abandoned, forgotten building.”
      “I say this because it does seem that relatively few authors have explicitly adopted it, and it, rather curiously, seems a forgotten option.”
unforgotten
  1. Not forgotten; still remembered.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. never forgotten, remembered, memorialised, memorialized, commemorated, preserved, reverenced, venerated, consecrated, sanctified, always remembered, forever remembered, green, vivid, fresh, flourishing … more
unforgot
  1. Archaic form of unforgotten.
unforgettable
  1. Very difficult or impossible to forget
  2. Synonyms:
      3. memorable, indelible, exceptional, extraordinary, impressive, striking, catchy, distinctive, haunting, notable, outstanding, remarkable, significant, special, spectacular, arresting, cherished, distinguished, enduring, eventful, famous, great, historic, illustrious, important, meaningful, monumental, noteworthy, rememberable, remembered, signal, treasured, fixed in the mind, never to be forgotten, not to be forgotten, momentous, glorious, celebrated, consequential, renowned, red-letter, wonderful, rare, conspicuous, material, brilliant, marked, substantial, weighty, uncommon … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The result is one of the simplest artistic interventions I have ever seen and one of the most unforgettable.”
      “The radiance of Blanchett and the beatific look of love on the face of Ribisi are unforgettable.”
      “Thousands of floating, flickering lights, rhythmically carried forward by the slowly moving waters of the holy river, are an unforgettable sight.”
forgetfull
  1. Archaic form of forgetful.
forgettable
  1. Easily forgotten.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. ordinary, unremarkable, undistinguished, mediocre, unmemorable, uninteresting, boring, unexceptional, indifferent, uninspired, average, lacklustre, lackluster, pedestrian, vanilla, prosaic, everyday, middling, half-pie, no great shakes, unexciting, run-of-the-mill, not up to much, nothing to write home about, middle-of-the-road, common, commonplace, workaday, so-so, bog-standard, plain vanilla, passable, not so hot, bland, second-rate, dull, OK, fair, humdrum, moderate, characterless, standard, medium, insignificant, nothing to get excited about, mainstream, amateur, amateurish, tolerable, adequate … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The first half was utterly forgettable with the exception of just a few saving graces.”
      “Once the novelty of the costumed fighting has passed, the stories are rather forgettable.”
      “A pleasant piece of fluff, this light comedy, while laugh inducing, is utterly forgettable.”
unforgetful
  1. not forgetful
  2. Synonyms:
      3. tenacious, photographic, retentive, recollective, good
  3. Examples:
      4. “He strolled through life, and all life was a play of which he became the easy-going but unforgetful critic.”
      “It was strange that reserved, unforgiving, and yet not unforgetful temperament of his!”
      “Orcus has heard my vow, and it is written in the book of the unforgetful Hades.”
forgitty
  1. (Britain dialectal) Forgetful.
unforgetting
  1. Not forgetting.
forgetting
  1. present participle of forget
  2. Synonyms:
      3. disremembering, misrecollecting, obliviating, failing to recollect, unlearning, failing to recall, letting slip, clean forgetting, failing to remember, consigning to oblivion, dismissing from mind, drawing a blank, escaping one's memory, failing to think of, forgetting about, losing consciousness of, losing sight of, failing to bring to mind, letting slip from memory, losing track of, abandoning, bypassing, dropping, blanking out, shutting out, burying, discounting, skipping, brushing off, ceasing to remember, laying aside, blanking over, ceasing to think of, erasing from your mind, having done with, putting away, setting aside, shrugging off, taking no notice of, thinking no more of, turning your back on, getting over, paying no heed to, putting behind you, slurring over, stopping thinking about, erasing from memory, letting bygones be bygones … more
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