Meaning & use
Amnesiac
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A person who suffers from amnesia, a partial or total loss of memory.
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The film's protagonist is an amnesiac trying to piece together his identity from scattered clues.
Doctors worked with the amnesiac to help her recover fragments of her past.
A note on using this word
"Amnesiac" is used both as a noun for a person with amnesia and, less formally, as an adjective ("amnesiac symptoms"), though "amnesic" is the more strictly clinical adjective form.
Another way to use it
2. adjective
Relating to or affected by amnesia.
He described an amnesiac episode following the accident.
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