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: mało pamiętny, słabo zapadający w pamięć
• Portuguese: esquecível, olvidável
• Russian: забыва́емый (ru) (zabyvájemyj)
• Spanish: olvidable (es)
• Swedish: förglömlig
• Turkish: unutulabilir