What's the difference between forgettable and unmemorable?
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 .
Unmemorable
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Fillmore – an unmemorable man with a memorable name who often finds himself on lists of America’s worst presidents – was tapped to run by the Whig Party to run for vice president in 1848 because, as a moderate northerner, his presence was supposed to balance war hero Zachary Taylor, a slave-holding southerner, on the top of the ticket.
(2) Depay made way for Ashley Young in the second half and perhaps more significantly Schweinsteiger capped an unmemorable evening by being hauled off in favour of Marouane Fellaini.
(3) She was palely unmemorable in this post and in the next cabinet, as minister for climate and environment.
(4) In 1983, I was being wheeled on to a 'yoof' television programme, there to be grilled by an unmemorable host.
(5) In fact the alarm bells had started going off in September 1975 after a dry but unmemorable summer.
(6) Returning host Stone used her monologue to revel in her familiarity with the show, which she likened to returning to her high school in a charming if unmemorable opening segment.
(7) It was a poor game and an unmemorable occasion, until news from Goodison filtered through midway through the second half and Old Trafford found its voice.