Definition of Forgetful person

1. Noun. A flighty and disorganized person.

Exact synonyms: Scatterbrain
Generic synonyms: Simple, Simpleton

Lexicographical Neighbors of Forgetful Person

forgemen
forger
forgeries
forgers
forgery
forges
forges ahead
forget, when up to one's neck in alligators, that the mission is to drain the swamp
forget-me-not
forget-me-nots
forget it
forget me drug
forget oneself
forgetful
forgetful person (current term)
forgetfull
forgetfully
forgetfulness
forgetfulnesses
forgetive
forgetness
forgets
forgettable
forgettably
forgetted
forgetter
forgetters
forgettest
forgetteth

Literary usage of Forgetful person

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Manuscripts of J. M. Heathcote, Esq., Conington Castle by Richard Fanshawe, John Moyer Heathcote (1899)
"enough remembered, and yet I must tell you the forgetful person is more severe to ... forgetful person ..."

2. Everyday Ethics by Ella Lyman Cabot (1906)
"The difference between the life of a person of constant memory and that of the forgetful person, will be shown in all that each of them does. ..."

3. Lame and Lovely: Essays on Religion for Modern Minds by Frank Crane (1912)
"No self-forgetful person is ever sensitive. No self-forgetful person is habitually unhappy. This sin of sensitiveness — and we ought to face it as a ..."

4. God and Democracy: Lame and Lovely by Frank Crane (1920)
"No self-forgetful person is ever sensitive. No self-forgetful person is habitually unhappy. This sin of sensitiveness—and we ought to face it as a distinct ..."

5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1882)
"... usually applied to a fussy, forgetful person, young or old; also, to a ridiculously - dressed female. ..."

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