Need another word that means the same as “forget”? Find 57 synonyms and 30 related words for “forget” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Forget” are: leave, blank out, block, draw a blank, bury, fail to remember, fail to recall, fail to think of, let slip, neglect, fail, omit, not remember, leave behind, omit to take, overlook, lose track of, mislay, misplace, lose, stop thinking about, think no more of, cease to think of, cease to remember, put out of one's mind, shut out, pay no heed to, not worry about, ignore, never mind, take no notice of, banish from one's thoughts, put away, get over, set aside, lay aside, pass over, abandon, have done with, drop, disregard, brush off, shrug off, act improperly, misbehave, do wrong, go wrong, behave badly, be misbehaved, misconduct oneself, be bad, be naughty, get up to mischief, get up to no good, act up, cause someone trouble, give someone trouble
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “forget” as a verb can have the following definitions:
| abandon | Leave (a place or vehicle) empty or uninhabited, without intending to return. Her natural mother had abandoned her at an early age. |
| act improperly | Pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind. |
| act up | Be suitable for theatrical performance. |
| banish from one's thoughts | Drive away. |
| be bad | Have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun. |
| be misbehaved | To remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted — used only in infinitive form. |
| be naughty | Have life, be alive. |
| behave badly | Behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself. |
| blank out | Keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning. |
| block | Shape into a block or blocks. The narrow roads were blocked by cars. |
| brush off | Sweep across or over. |
| bury | Hide or try to forget (a feeling or memory. He ran through to bury a right foot shot inside the near post. |
| cause someone trouble | Give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally. |
| cease to remember | Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical. |
| cease to think of | Put an end to a state or an activity. |
| disregard | Give little or no attention to. The body of evidence is too substantial to disregard. |
| do wrong | Spend time in prison or in a labor camp. |
| draw a blank | Elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc. |
| drop | Score a goal by a drop kick. He dropped a goal to beat England in the final minute. |
| fail | Become bankrupt or insolvent fail financially and close. The light began to fail. |
| fail to recall | Become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close. |
| fail to remember | Fail to do something; leave something undone. |
| fail to think of | Become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close. |
| get over | Overcome or destroy. |
| get up to mischief | Undergo (as of injuries and illnesses. |
| get up to no good | Succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase. |
| give someone trouble | Give or supply. |
| go wrong | Progress by being changed. |
| have done with | Achieve a point or goal. |
| ignore | Refuse to take notice of or acknowledge; disregard intentionally. The rules ignore one important principle of cricket. |
| lay aside | Lay eggs. |
| leave | Leave behind unintentionally. Leave the room. |
| leave behind | Go and leave behind either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness. |
| let slip | Actively cause something to happen. |
| lose | Miss from one s possessions lose sight of. This clock will neither gain nor lose a second. |
| lose track of | Miss from one’s possessions; lose sight of. |
| misbehave | (of a person, especially a child) fail to conduct oneself in an acceptable way; behave badly. Josh misbehaved pushing his food off the table. |
| misconduct oneself | Manage badly or incompetently. |
| mislay | Place (something) where one cannot find it again. I seem to have mislaid my car keys. |
| misplace | Put (an object) in the wrong place and so lose it temporarily. Crewe came back into the game when Strachan misplaced a pass in the midfield. |
| neglect | Not pay proper attention to; disregard. You neglect our advice at your peril. |
| never mind | Be in charge of or deal with. |
| not remember | Exercise, or have the power of, memory. |
| not worry about | Be on the mind of. |
| omit | Fail or neglect to do. He was omitted from the second Test. |
| omit to take | Prevent from being included or considered or accepted. |
| overlook | Leave undone or leave out. It s better if the property isn t overlooked. |
| pass over | Pass over across or through. |
| pay no heed to | Cancel or discharge a debt. |
| put away | Cause (someone) to undergo something. |
| put out of one's mind | Put into a certain place or abstract location. |
| set aside | Give a fine, sharp edge to a knife or razor. |
| shrug off | Raise one’s shoulders to indicate indifference or resignation. |
| shut out | Prevent from entering shut out. |
| stop thinking about | Cause to stop. |
| take no notice of | Be designed to hold or take. |
| think no more of | Expect, believe, or suppose. |
| absolutely | Completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers. You re absolutely right. |
| altogether | Taking everything into consideration; on the whole. In the altogether. |
| collectively | In conjunction with; combined. The vast range of resources that the American people collectively own. |
| completely | Totally; utterly. It was completely different from what we expected. |
| conclusively | In a way that is achieved easily or by a large margin. Wars are difficult to win conclusively. |
| decisively | In a way that shows the ability to make decisions quickly and effectively. The government will act decisively against all extremist activities. |
| entirely | Without any others being included or involved. The traffic seemed to consist entirely of black cabs. |
| generic | (of drugs) not protected by trademark. The generic name. |
| ignore | Refuse to acknowledge. The rules ignore one important principle of cricket. |
| inappropriate | Not suitable or proper in the circumstances. Put inappropriate pressure on them. |
| lapse | Revert to (a previous or more familiar style of speaking or behaviour. He let his membership of CND lapse. |
| memory | An electronic memory device. A memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached. |
| misplace | Position incorrectly. I misplaced my eyeglasses. |
| mnemonics | A method or system for improving the memory. |
| neglect | The state of something that has been unused and neglected. You neglect our advice at your peril. |
| obscurity | The state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination. He is too good a player to slide into obscurity. |
| outright | Open and direct. Logging has been banned outright. |
| overlook | A high place affording a good view. He seems to have overlooked one important fact. |
| perfectly | In a perfect or faultless way. Perfectly clean glass bottles. |
| psyche | A beautiful princess loved by Cupid who visited her at night and told her she must not try to see him; became the personification of the soul. How does constant losing affect the psyches of young athletes. |
| recollection | A thing recollected; a memory. To the best of my recollection no one ever had a bad word to say about him. |
| remember | Mention favorably, as in prayer. She remembered herself and sat up straighter. |
| solely | Not involving anyone or anything else; only. People are appointed solely on the basis of merit. |
| thoroughly | Completely and absolutely good is sometimes used informally for thoroughly. She was soon thoroughly bored. |
| totally | Used to express agreement. So then Julie like totally dumps her boyfriend Tommy. |
| undeserved | Not deserved or earned. Has an undeserved reputation as a coward. |
| unsuited | Not right or appropriate. He was totally unsuited for the job. |
| utterly | Completely and without qualification; absolutely. Utterly miserable. |
| vanish | Get lost, as without warning or explanation. An entire civilization vanished. |
| wholly | To a complete degree or to the full or entire extent whole is often used informally for wholly. The distinction is not wholly clear. |
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