Word Meanings - FORGETFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory. 2. Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers. Heb. xiii. 2.

Related words: (words related to FORGETFUL)

• SHOULDER
  The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the
• LOSINGLY
  In a manner to incur loss.
• SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
  Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak.
• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• LOSENGERIE
  Flattery; deceit; trickery. Chaucer.
• LOSEL
  One who loses by sloth or neglect; a worthless person; a lorel. Spenser. One sad losel soils a name for aye. Byron.
• FORGETTINGLY
  By forgetting.
• SHOULDERED
  Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer.
• FORGETFUL
  1. Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory. 2. Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers. Heb. xiii. 2.
• ENTERTAINER
  One who entertains.
• STRENGTHENING
  That strengthens; giving or increasing strength. -- Strength"en*ing*ly, adv. Strengthening plaster , a plaster containing iron, and supposed to have tonic effects.
• FORGETFULNESS
  1. The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind. 2. Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion. A sweet forgetfulness of human care. Pope. 3. Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention;
• INATTENTIVE
  Not attentive; not fixing the mind on an object; heedless; careless; negligent; regardless; as, an inattentive spectator or hearer; an inattentive habit. I. Watts. Syn. -- Careless; heedless; regardless; thoughtless; negligent; remiss; inadvertent.
• LOSING
  Given to flattery or deceit; flattering; cozening. Amongst the many simoniacal that swarmed in the land, Herbert, Bishop of Thetford, must not be forgotten; nick-named Losing, that is, the Fratterer. Fuller.
• LOSSLESS
  Free from loss. Milton.
• STRENGTHENER
  One who, or that which, gives or adds strength. Sir W. Temple.
• ENTERTAINING
  Affording entertainment; pleasing; amusing; diverting. -- En`ter*tain"ing*ly, adv. -- En`ter*tain"ing*ness, n.
• FORGETIVE
  Inventive; productive; capable. Shak.
• LOSANGE
  See LOZENGE
• LOSER
  One who loses. South.
• PAXILLOSE
  Resembling a little stake.
• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• FLOSSIFICATION
  A flowering; florification. Craig.
• PHILOSOPHIZE
  To reason like a philosopher; to search into the reason and nature of things; to investigate phenomena, and assign rational causes for their existence. Man philosophizes as he lives. He may philosophize well or ill, but philosophize he must. Sir
• TYPHLOSOLE
  A fold of the wall which projects into the cavity of the intestine in bivalve mollusks, certain annelids, starfishes, and some other animals.
• CYCLOSTYLE
  A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred
• FILOSELLE
  A kind of silk thread less glossy than floss, and spun from coarser material. It is much used in embroidery instead of floss.
• FLOSH
  A hopper-shaped box or Knight.
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• GLANDULOSITY
  Quality of being glandulous; a collection of glands. Sir T. Browne.
• GLOSSA
  The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera.
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
• HUMP-SHOULDERED
  Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.
• DIPLOSTEMONOUS
  Having twice as many stamens as petals, as the geranium. R. Brown.
• GLOSSIST
  A writer of comments. Milton.
• PHILOSOPHATE
  To play the philosopher; to moralize. Barrow.