forgettable

English

Etymology

From forget +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛtəbəl

Adjective

forgettable (comparative more forgettable, superlative most forgettable)

1. Possible to be forgotten.
2. Easily forgotten; not special or notable.

   Antonym: unforgettable

   • 2012, Jeff Rice, Digital Detroit: Rhetoric and Space in the Age of the Network, page 160:

     Barthes describes the punctum (the nonconnotative or denotative meaning) of the photograph (or movie still) in such a manner; the detail relevant or not relevant to the image's overall meaning becomes the focus of an otherwise forgettable picture […]

Derived terms

• forgettableness
• forgettably

Translations

easily forgotten

Albanian: i harrueshëm Catalan: oblidable Chinese: Mandarin: 讓人印象不深的 / 让人印象不深的 (ràng rén yìnxiàng bù shēn de), 不起眼兒 / 不起眼儿 (bù qìyǎnr) Dutch: vergetelijk Esperanto: forgesebla Finnish: helposti unohtuva French: oubliable (fr) Galician: esquecible (gl), esquecíbel (gl) German: vergessbar Hungarian: felejthető (hu) Icelandic: gleymanleg Italian: dimenticabile, scordevole Latin: immemorabilis Polish: słabo zapadający w pamięć Portuguese: esquecível, olvidável Russian: забыва́емый (ru) (zabyvájemyj) Spanish: olvidable (es) Swedish: förglömlig Turkish: unutulabilir Welsh: anghofiadwy