forcasten
forcasten · more forcasten · most forcasten
Abandoned; forlornAbandoned; forlorn.
Meaning
3 senses(Scotland, dialectal)Abandoned; forlorn.
(obsolete)Felled, fallen.
(UK, archaic, dialectal)Cast away, rejected; neglected; not used, cast off.
Origin
Originally the past participle of obsolete forcast (“to cast away”); also from Middle EnglOriginally the past participle of obsolete forcast (“to cast away”); also from Middle English forcasten, a variant of forcast (“rejected, cast away”), past participle of forcasten (“to cast away, reject”), of North Germanic origin, compare Danish forkaste (“to reject”), Swedish förkasta (“to reject”), equivalent to for- + cast.
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Forms
more forcasten, most forcasten| Comparative | more forcasten Lesson |
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| Superlative | most forcasten Lesson |
regular
Lessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form