UNLEARNING Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

unlearning

verb

present participle of unlearn

as in forgetting

to be unable to recall or think of let's hope that over the summer I don't unlearn everything I learned over the course of this past year

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Recent Examples of unlearning If the organization pays for accumulation and charges for unlearning, accumulating is the correct strategy, and the man with two decades and a photograph for a pattern was doing exactly what those decades had paid him to do. — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026 While the process of unlearning everything you’ve ever been taught doesn’t happen overnight, resources like this new guidebook from Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall, a design anthropologist, educator, and writer, are excellent tools for self-improvement. — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 18 June 2026 Even at its most progressive, a program as choreographed as The Bachelor has limited capacity to embrace a lead who is actively unlearning the cycles of abuse; the franchise’s version of relatability, for better or worse, was built on sameness and predictability. — Shamira Ibrahim, HollywoodReporter, 25 Mar. 2026 Mario Kart veterans must spend time unlearning their drifting muscle memory due to Air Riders' wildly different angles and timing. — PC Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025 Now in her adulthood, Hall has spent years unlearning those pressures and rethinking what health and body image should really mean. — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025 For Neva, that meant taking a break from advanced placement classes her sophomore year and unlearning perfectionism. — Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 17 Feb. 2025

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Because creating that avenue was a theme of loss and remembering and what forgetting or remembering means for a character.

— Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2026
Really, the challenge as an actor is forgetting all the playfulness, ambition and tone around it, or even the books and the research and just playing the truth of it.

— Matt Minton, Variety, 10 Aug. 2026

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