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Breakdown of the Kanji

-気味 (-gimi: -like; -looking; -looked)

彼は人の名前を忘れ気味である。
Kare wa hito no namae o wasuregimi de aru.
He is apt to forget people’s names.

(kare: he)
(hito: person)
名前 (namae: name)     name + before

Halpern calls this “unclassified,” which seems to mean that it’s ateji.

(wasu(reru): to forget)

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