Meanings
- not comparableNot completely forgotten.
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.
2023 January 25, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 975, page 711 more example
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.
1941 September, Guy Bakewell, “Melbourne's Outer Circle Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 397
Translations
French à demi oublié
- à demi oubliéhalf-forgotten
German halb vergessen
- halb vergessenhalf-forgotten
Hungarian félig elfeledett, félig elfelejtett
- félig elfeledetthalf-forgotten
- félig elfelejtetthalf-forgotten
Polish na wpół zapomniany
- na wpół zapomnianyhalf-forgotten
Russian полузабы́тый
- полузабы́тый (poluzabýtyj)half-forgotten
Ukrainian напівзабу́тий
- напівзабу́тий (napivzabútyj)half-forgotten
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half-forgotten. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/half-forgotten
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