- to cease to remember; be unable to recall: to forget a name. 2. to omit or neglect unintentionally: I forgot to lock the gate. 3. to leave behind unintentionally: to forget one's keys. 4. to fail to think of; take no note of (often used imperatively): Forget cooking, let's eat out tonight.
The meaning of FORGET is to lose the remembrance of : be unable to think of or recall.
FORGET definition: 1. to be unable to remember a fact, something that happened, or how to do something: 2. to be good…. Learn more.
If you forget something or forget to do it, you fail to think about it or fail to remember to do it, for example because you are thinking about other things. She never forgets her daddy's birthday. [VERB noun] She forgot to lock her door one day and two men got in. [VERB to-infinitive]
forget (third-person singular simple present forgets, present participle forgetting, simple past forgot or (obsolete) forgat, past participle forgotten or (archaic or colloquial) forgot)
There are 18 meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb forget, three of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
Both forgot and forgotten are used as the past participle of forget: Many have already forgot (or forgotten) the hard times of the Depression. Only forgotten is used attributively: half-forgotten memories.
- To cease remembering: Let's forgive and forget. 2. To fail or neglect to become aware at the proper or specified moment: forgot about my dental appointment.