forgettable

adjective

for·​get·​ta·​ble fər-ˈge-tə-bəl How to pronounce forgettable (audio)
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: fit or likely to be forgotten
a forgettable movie

Examples of forgettable in a Sentence

It was an extremely forgettable performance.
Recent Examples on the Web This was Hur’s most memorable statement, in no small part because so many of his other answers were forgettable. Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024 The Champions League is supposed to be appointment viewing, but this week — these last few weeks — have been intensely forgettable. Rory Smith, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024 But, sometimes, the best of life happens in the ordinary, the forgettable. Susan Vollenweider, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2024 Funke is tucked into an entirely forgettable building on South Santa Monica Boulevard, a few doors down from that iconic Union 76 gas station with the swooping roof. Jason Sheeler, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Feb. 2024 Instead, Marina settled in a two-bedroom on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where people find her name both forgettable and unpronounceable. Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 14 Feb. 2024 Because there is actually something worse than a movie not succeeding: being forgettable. James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2024 Among the forgettable melodramas there are also plenty of hidden gems—thoroughly modern love stories with whip-smart scripts and surprises up their sleeves, many of them directed by women and featuring more diverse casts than the average ’90s weepie. Radhika Seth, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2024 Quinn and Cahill founded a new company for this purpose and gave it a forgettable name, Process and Industrial Developments Ltd. Jesse Barron, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1845, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of forgettable was in 1845

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“Forgettable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forgettable. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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