Usually means: Prone to overlooking or omitting.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. forgetful: Merriam-Webster
  2. forgetful: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. forgetful: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. forgetful: Collins English Dictionary
  5. forgetful: Vocabulary.com
  6. Forgetful, forgetful: Wordnik
  7. forgetful: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. forgetful: Wiktionary
  9. forgetful: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. forgetful: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. forgetful: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Forgetful, forgetful: Dictionary.com
  13. forgetful: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Forgetful: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Forgetful: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. forgetful: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. forgetful: Rhymezone
  18. forgetful: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. forgetful: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. forgetful: FreeDictionary.org
  21. forgetful: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. forgetful: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. forgetful: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. forgetful: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. forgetful: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. forgetful: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Forgetful: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Unable to remember things well; liable to forget.
▸ adjective:  (mathematics) Dropping some of the input's structure or properties before producing an output.

Similar:
inattentive, oblivious, short, mindless, unmindful, amnesic, unretentive, oblivescent, scatterbrained, fuzzy-headed, more...

Opposite:
mindful, mindful of

Phrases:
forgetful of, forgetful functor, forgetful person, self forgetful, opposite of forgetful, more...

Adjectives:
little, much, long, delusive, grown, many, awful, call, fearful, self, dumb

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Similar:
inattentive, oblivious, short, mindless, unmindful, amnesic, unretentive, oblivescent, scatterbrained, fuzzy-headed, more...

Opposite:
mindful, mindful of

Phrases:
forgetful of, forgetful functor, forgetful person, self forgetful, opposite of forgetful, to be forgetful, being forgetful, forgetful mistake, forgetful look, unmindful or forgetful, very forgetful, more...

Adjectives:
little, much, long, delusive, grown, many, awful, call, fearful, self, dumb

Colors:
    pale blue,     faded lavender,     muted teal,     washed-out pink,     dusty rose, more...



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