forgotten

B1 · Intermediate

adj. describes something that people no longer remember or think about.

adj. describing an object, person, or fact that has slipped from public or private memory.

“The explorers found a forgotten city deep in the jungle.”

“The historian spent years researching forgotten documents in the national archives to reconstruct the lives of ordinary citizens during the war.”

C1 · Advanced Plural noun Literary · Formal

n. people or things that society has stopped caring about or remembering.

n. a collective noun referring to people or entities that have been marginalized or excluded from historical or social memory.

“The charity works to provide food and shelter for the forgotten of the city.”

“The monument was erected to honour the forgotten—those soldiers whose names were never recorded in the official casualty lists.”