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forgone

forgone is the past participle of forgo.

Meaning of forgo

Verb

forgo (third-person singular simple present forgoes, present participle forgoing, simple past forwent or (nonstandard) forgoed, past participle forgone or (nonstandard) forwent or (nonstandard) forgoed)

  1. (transitive) To do without (something enjoyable); to relinquish.
    • I've had to forgo my student discount in exchange for taking the job.
  2. (literary, transitive) To refrain from, to abstain from.
    • I shall forgo actually stepping inside, thank you.

Words formed from forgone

Questions about forgone

What is forgone the past participle of?
Forgone is the past participle of forgo.

Words near forgone in the dictionary

  1. forgoers
  2. forgoes
  3. forgoest
  4. forgoeth
  5. forgoing
  6. forgone
  7. forgor
  8. forgot
  9. forgot about
  10. forgot one's manners
  11. forgot oneself

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forgone (page history and authors); forgo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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