Talk:forgetful

neglectful
not giving due attention to somebody or something (formal) forgetful of his contractual obligations https://www.wordreference.com/definition/forgetful I'd add this meaning too --Backinstadiums (talk) 15:45, 25 August 2019 (UTC)

RFV discussion: August–September 2019
Sense 2: forgettable. This has one citation ("Nor has Dalua part or mention in the antique legend. Like other ancient things, this divinity hath come secretly upon us in a forgetful time, new and strange and terrible, though his unremembered shadow crossed our way when first we set out on our long travel, in the youth of the world"). I don't think it means forgettable. A "forgetful time" is more likely to be an age when people have forgotten something from the past, i.e. closer to sense 1, unable to remember things. (There is, though, some shade of distinction from being habitually forgetful [where did I put my keys?].) Equinox ◑ 13:16, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I think you’re right – the “unremembered shadow” is the shadow that this amnesic age has forgotten all about. --Lambiam 19:39, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 19:59, 29 September 2019 (UTC)