Meaning of time forgot | Babel Free
Definitions
- Isolated from the outside world and far behind the times; extremely outdated or archaic.
- Utterly forgotten; lost to history.
Examples
“"Jee-zus!" Bobbie said, ramming her car viciously up Short Ridge Hill. "Something fishy is going on here! We're in the Town That Time Forgot!"”
“That might have something to do with the fact [Andrew] Scheer is offering, as it stands, the policy platform that time forgot: concerns about deficit financing and the mortgaging of our children's future; all taxes, including the carbon tax, are bad and strangle the wealth creators that generate prosperity for all Canadians; government desperately needs to cut red tape and regulation to allow entrepreneurs to create jobs; Ottawa must support freer trade policies with a Canada-first mentality.”
“It's a game that favors strategy over strength, quickness over endurance, net play over ground strokes—the tennis that time forgot.”
“It's the plan that time forgot: remember the national plan for music education, the government's scheduled response to the Henley review of music education? Don't worry, you're forgiven if you don't.”
“During the ensuing conflict the original timeline was restored, but some Tick-Tocks survived, remnants of a time that time itself forgot.”
“I loved snooping through rows and rows of DVDs, finding strange and obscure movies time forgot.”
“He's in love with the statue in a marble block / He's in love with the girl that time forgot”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.