Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

un-forget

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.49 in modern English

Syllables: un--for-get
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Rare form of unforget.

Example Sentences

"Truth is aletheia. A-letheia is the un-concealment that arises through un-forgetting. […] To un-forget the origin is to remember that one has forgotten and to recognize that such forgetting is inescapable. […] The truth "known" in the un-forgetting of a-letheia is a truth that always carries a shadow in the midst of its lighting."
"Her [Assia Djebar's] novelistic ‘un-forgetting’ of an occulted past and her confrontation with a perilous national present take her as far back as the fall of Carthage and forward through two millennia of subterranean linguistic and gender memories."
"Breaking open the word of God in Scripture through preaching is a vital way of un-forgetting. […] Whether in great set-piece sermons or in short intimate homilies the preacher is called upon to help us ‘un-forget’ the one thing that most people find it hardest to believe – that God loves them."

Inflected Forms

un-forgets (present, singular) un-forgetting (participle, present) un-forgot (past) un-forgotten (participle, past)

Questions

What does un-forget mean?: Rare form of unforget.

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