# forgotten

Pronunciation: US say "fur-GO-tn" /fɚˈɡɑ.tn̩/; UK say "fuh-GOT-n" /fəˈɡɒt.n̩/

## Verb

1. Past participle of forget. — past participle of forget
   - Simple: Past participle of forget. Use this form after "have," "has," or "had," or in a passive sentence.
   - _She had forgotten where she left her keys._
   - _The old harvest festival has been forgotten by most younger residents._

## Adjective

2. No longer remembered; lost from memory or common knowledge.
   - Simple: No longer remembered or known by anyone.
   - _A forgotten language survives only in a handful of stone inscriptions._
   - _His early paintings stayed forgotten until a collector rediscovered them._

## Noun

3. A person or thing that is no longer remembered.
   - Simple: Someone or something that people no longer remember.
   - _The memorial honors the forgotten of the war, soldiers buried in graves without names._
   - _Each January the magazine revisits the decade's forgotten: gadgets, fads, and minor celebrities nobody mentions anymore._

## Origin

Formed from "forgot" with the suffix "-en".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/forgotten (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).