What's the difference between forgettable and unforgettable?

Forgettable


Definition:

  • (a.) Liable to be, or that may be, forgotten.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ernst’s may have earned her place for being just the opposite: forgettable.
  • (2) Clegg wants to be seen as a vital component in the machinery of government but the Lib Dems come across more like rinse aid in a dishwasher: probably useful, surely not essential, easily forgettable, and few people are clear about what it does.
  • (3) This largely forgettable evening has thus given Arsenal the most momentous night in their history, with Barcelona or Milan to be encountered in a final at the Stade de France on May 17.
  • (4) His business papers were in order: contracts for his real-estate business, tax documents, the forgettable dealings of a successful man – hardly what a killer might carry.
  • (5) Without Bryant, the San Antonio Spurs swept the Lakers in the first round of the postseason, a series that ended in Staples Center with Dwight Howard ending his forgettable tenure in LA by semi-deliberately fouling out of the lopsided loss .
  • (6) BRITISH AND IRISH LIONS WIN TEAM OF THE YEAR Head coach Warren Gatland and captain Sam Warburton collect the award, Warburton spitting out a particularly forgettable speech.
  • (7) It's an impressively constructed, awesomely designed, and completely forgettable entertainment that is indistinguishable from its peers.
  • (8) As the Queens Park Rangers manager's first taste of the play-offs was a forgettable, fractious affair, the Champions League and the Championship felt worlds apart, even if Redknapp, ever ready with a flippant one-liner, pretended to disagree.
  • (9) She fluffed her lines, struggling to remember that it was NHS computer systems that were wasteful and an obvious area for cuts: naturally enough, since it is an entirely forgettable argument.
  • (10) It's almost as if that match was instantly forgettable.
  • (11) The first half was forgettable and there was laughter from the crowd at the interval when the big-screen highlights were introduced, although there had been bits and pieces to admire, in particular the rugged power of Diamé.
  • (12) It was a very creative time.” It is dangerous to look back to the BBC’s past and identify golden ages (and a flick through back issues of the Radio Times puts paid to such notions: there has always been plenty of forgettable or mediocre programming among the wonderful stuff).
  • (13) He also made some forgettable novelty records, including a version of the Rolling Stones' Off The Hook.
  • (14) The red carpet is to fashion what Twitter is to reasoned discourse: it dilutes it to nothing but a series of quick, easily digestible and instantly forgettable hits that will be endlessly discussed within the shouty echo-chamber of commentators, and then repeats the whole process at the next awards event ad nauseum.
  • (15) The 225th Merseyside derby had been consigned to the growing file of the instantly forgettable when it was given a status it never merited by the announcement Rodgers had been sacked.
  • (16) Paolo Di Canio's nemesis had an infinitely forgettable, extremely one paced, afternoon punctuated by subsequent forfeitures of possession and appalling first touches.
  • (17) Chelsea might more normally consider this to have been a rather forgettable occasion.
  • (18) Given that what gets on my wick is precisely that kind of vacuous waffle, allow me to illuminate you all: Teavana Oprah Chai is merely vaguely spicy, very sweet tea that would be instantly forgettable if it wasn’t so queasily cloying.
  • (19) His introduction was the only lasting memory from a forgettable scoreless draw.
  • (20) His performance was so forgettable that it led to speculation that he might be the worst No1 pick in NBA history .

Unforgettable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not forgettable; enduring in memory.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Blowing up the flats will on the one hand "serve as an unforgettable statement of how Glasgow is confidently embracing the future and changing for the better", while on the other it will "serve as a respectful recognition and celebration of the role the Red Road flats have played in shaping the lives of thousands of city families for whom these flats have simply been home … " According to David Zolkwer, who as the games' artistic director may have had the idea, the demolition will be "a bold and confident statement that says: 'Bring on the future'."
  • (2) It had the better of ITV1 documentary repeat The Unforgettable... Bob Monkhouse, which had 2.886 million viewers, a 12% share, but just lost out to the last of ITV1 three-part drama Above Suspicion: Deadly Intent, which had 4.7 million, of whom 162,000 were watching on ITV1 HD, an 18.4% share.
  • (3) Michael Haefliger, Executive and Artistic Director of the Lucerne Festival , said today, "We are profoundly grateful to Claudio Abbado for all the magnificent, unforgettable, and indescribable experiences that he gave us in the past 47 years.
  • (4) The nations with the highest recorded levels include Colombia, Uganda, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal, with the south Asian countries in particular producing unforgettable images of disfigured women who have been assaulted with acid because they have rejected sexual advances or marriage proposals, or aroused jealousy, or in some way or other inconvenienced the patriarchy and aroused its ire.
  • (5) One can hypothesize that the composer's brain disease, which led to his psychosis and death, may have had an influence on his ability to create the powerful and unforgettable scenes of psychosis in his operas.
  • (6) Juve replied with a brace of their own, both by the man who would become Ranieri's predecessor at Chelsea, Vialli, then an unforgettable late winner from a teenaged wunderkind called Del Piero.
  • (7) "Recording them was an unforgettable experience," he says.
  • (8) According to Farrow, who was one of several high-profile guests at Mandela's now infamous Cape Town dinner party, Campbell had said over breakfast the next morning that she had "an unforgettable story" to tell.
  • (9) I've had the tremendous pleasure of working very closely with Alex for 16 unforgettable years – through the Treble, the double, countless trophy wins and numerous signings.
  • (10) He will return as BBC royalty to the continent on which he first announced himself at Mexico 86, scoring a hat-trick against Poland in Monterrey and going on to duke it out with Diego Maradona in an unforgettable quarter-final in Mexico City.
  • (11) I have had three unforgettable years here that I don’t want to analyse in this moment.
  • (12) Empson, unforgettable as wisecracking Jamaican gossip Mrs Aphrodite in the Theatre Royal ska musical The Big Life in 2004, is mouthwatering casting as the Queen.
  • (13) "Unforgettable is, unfortunately, not the word," Jack Tinker wrote in the Daily Mail.
  • (14) The zoo says the Gorilla Kingdom ensures unforgettable encounters with the apes.
  • (15) Washington DC is the only Tussauds to feature a gallery of all 44 US presidents, which opened last week, while Tussauds in Las Vegas features the only topless figure (former porn star Jenna Jameson) and the unforgettable opportunity to bounce on a bed with a stiff Hugh Hefner.
  • (16) Real Madrid won the European Cup for the ninth time here last night and, if their performance in beating Bayer Leverkusen 2-1 did little to blur the unforgettable images of their 1960 triumph at Hampden, the supreme moment of this success will rank with the best in European Cup history.
  • (17) The Liverpool manager evoked memories of Istanbul at half-time in the second leg, with his team trailing 2-0 and then 3-1 before sealing an unforgettable victory in stoppage time.
  • (18) With a final prediction of blustery showers and sunny periods, Britain's champion weather forecaster headed off last night to earn retirement money from his one, unforgettable, gaffe.
  • (19) It is probably inevitable, therefore, that the question that has been heard most at Spain's media events has been of how Del Bosque's men will acclimatise to the different pressures that accompany no longer being merely dark horses but the team that is expected to prick our senses, play the most unforgettable football, put on a peacock-like spreading of feathers.
  • (20) You’ll come back from an unforgettable day windblown and wet but exhilarated.

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