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forgetty

UK/fəˈɡɛti/US/fɚˈɡɛti/

forgetty adjective: tending to forget things, forgetful.

Adjective

forgetty (comparative more forgetty, superlative most forgetty)

  1. Tending to forget things, forgetful.
    • Please tell me what is D. F.’s name? I ought to remember but am so “forgetty”!1896 January 30, “The Conversation Corner”, in The Congregationalist, page 179
  2. In a state of forgetting, having forgotten.
    • We are over here, I see that, and all that is over there, and this over hereness and that over thereness is a small part of infinite other relations of hereness and thereness, I see all this, but then I get a bit forgetty, and, just, don’t have this particular-in-aggregate setup in my head, and I...2012, Padgett Powell, You & Me, page 12

Noun

forgetty (plural forgetties)

  1. A person whose memory has been erased or damaged.
    • Forgetties were barely above underpeople in status. They were persons convicted of various major crimes, to whom the courts of the worlds, or the Instrumentality, had allowed total amnesia instead of death or some punishment worse than death1965, Cordwainer Smith, “On the storm planet”, in When the People Fell, published 2012, page 517
    • Alma came out of the cube Finisternis as a forgetty, conditioned to remember nothing of her long sad psychotic life before the Instrumentality had sent her on a wild mission among the stars.1965, Cordwainer Smith, “Three to a Given Star”, in Galaxy, volume 24, page 127

Forms of forgetty

Adjective
comparativemore forgetty
superlativemost forgetty
Noun
pluralforgetties

Origin of forgetty

From forget + -y (“having the quality of; inclined to”).

Coined or popularized by Cordwainer Smith (see quotations below). Seemingly from forget + -y (suffix forming diminutive or familiar nouns).

Questions about forgetty

What does forgetty mean?
Forgetty means tending to forget things, forgetful.
What part of speech is forgetty?
Forgetty can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce forgetty?
Forgetty is pronounced /fəˈɡɛti/ (UK).

Words near forgetty in the dictionary

  1. forgetting to take one's medication this morning
  2. forgetting to take one's pills this morning
  3. forgettingly
  4. forgettingness
  5. forgettings
  6. forgetty
  7. Forgey
  8. Forgeys
  9. forgi
  10. forging
  11. forging ahead

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