half-forgotten

English

Adjective

half-forgotten (not comparable)

1. Not completely forgotten.
   • 1941 September, Guy Bakewell, “Melbourne's Outer Circle Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 397:

     Save for a short distance at one end both its northern and southern extremities are desolate and unused for some miles, and grass covers the platforms of half-forgotten stations; but of its central portion, part is a busy electrified suburban branch and another part used for goods traffic.

   • 2023 January 25, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 975, page 71:

     Now the model sits on a shelf in York's 'Warehouse' (known these days as the 'North Shed'), together with racks full of lamps, cutlery, and other ephemera from half-forgotten railway companies of long ago.

Translations

half-forgotten

• Belarusian: напаўзабы́ты (napaŭzabýty), паўзабы́ты (paŭzabýty)
• French: à demi oublié
• German: halb vergessen
• Hungarian: félig elfeledett, félig elfelejtett
• Polish: na wpół zapomniany
• Russian: полузабы́тый (ru) (poluzabýtyj)
• Ukrainian: напівзабу́тий (napivzabútyj)

References

• “half-forgotten”, in Collins English Dictionary.