forgotten words
Lexicon's faded entries
Forgotten words are vocabulary items that have fallen out of common use—words that once circulated freely but now gather dust in historical dictionaries.
The phrase also describes words temporarily lost to memory: The forgotten words came back to her suddenly.
A related sense covers words left unsaid: All the forgotten words between them hung in the air.
- eldritchWeirdly supernatural, disturbingly strange
- swainRural romantic pursuer
- thouArchaic second-person pronoun
- theeSecond-person object, antiquated
- kenningFigurative Norse compound
hath · rime · betwixt · ye olde · beseech · anon · mugwump · elflock · dead language · quoth · mother tongue · erstwhile · perchance · mayhap · zounds · frenemy · truthiness · nay
forgotten wordsmodern slang
Recently coined informal expressions
everyday words · common parlance · buzzwords · neologisms · lingua franca
forgotten, forget, forgets, forgetting, forgot, forgetful, forgetfulness, forgetfully, unforgettable