Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Past tense and past participle of lose.
- adj. Unable to find one's way: a lost child.
- adj. No longer in the possession, care, or control of someone or something: a lost pen.
- adj. No longer in existence; vanished or spent: lost youth.
- adj. No longer known or practiced: a lost art.
- adj. Beyond reach, communication, or influence: The expedition was lost to the world for two months.
- adj. Not used to one's benefit or advantage: a lost opportunity.
- adj. Having not been or unlikely to be won; unsuccessful: a lost battle; a lost cause.
- adj. Beyond recovery or redemption; fallen or destroyed: a lost soul.
- adj. Completely involved or absorbed; rapt: lost in thought.
- adj. Bewildered or confused: I'm lost—can you start over?
- idiom. be lost on To have no effect or influence on: Her advice was lost on me.
- idiom. be lost on To be beyond the comprehension of: The lecture was lost on us.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See lose.
- Parted with unwillingly or by misadventure; not to be found; no longer held or possessed; no longer kept in knowledge or remembrance: as, a lost book; a lost limb; a lost fortune.
- Not won or gained; missed: as, a lost prize; a lost chance.
- Not employed or enjoyed; not effectually or profitably used; misspent; wasted: as, a lost day; a lost opportunity.
- Ruined; destroyed; consumed or wasted away, whether physically or morally: as, lost health; lost honor.
- Spiritually ruined; abandoned morally; in theology, finally shut out from salvation or eternal life; damned: as, a lost soul.
- Bewildered; absent-minded; absorbed: as, he looked about in a lost way.
- Synonyms Missing.
- 4 and
- Shattered; overthrown; downfallen; depraved, abandoned, reprobate, profligate, incorrigible, shameless.
Wiktionary
- v. simple past tense and past participle of lose.
- adj. Unable to find one's way; unavailable, with location unknown.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Parted with unwillingly or unintentionally; not to be found; missing.
- adj. Parted with; no longer held or possessed
- adj. Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered.
- adj. Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way; bewildered; perplexed.
- adj. Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope
- adj. Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible.
- adj. Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible
- adj. Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as to be insensible of external things.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not gained or won
- adj. no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered
- adj. unable to function; without help
- n. people who are destined to die soon
- adj. incapable of being recovered or regained
- adj. having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity
- adj. spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed
- adj. deeply absorbed in thought
- adj. perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment
- adj. not caught with the senses or the mind
Examples
“The dance for which many a princeling lost his kingdom..lost his wife home and family.”
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“It would be terrible _to be lost to have been lost_ in the forest.”
“And again, he adviseth to circumspection and care, even in the smallest matters; because, sometimes, _A little neglect may breed great mischief_; adding, _for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost_; being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of a little care about a horseshoe nail!”
“The efforts of the woman to find the lost piece represent what Jesus did, when he left heaven, and took our nature upon him, and came as "the Son of man to _seek and to save that which was lost_.”
“Shall any of these heathen among whom I dwell, rise up at that awful season -- stretch out their hands towards you, and say, There stand the children who might have sent us the Bible, but they did not send it; and now we must be lost -- _lost for ever!”
“From there on the trail is lost -- lost -- _lost_, I tell you!”
“What I lost -- Ah! what I _lost_ was respect for "-- Blair choked --" for the institution that had deluded me.”
“And then there are the lost sheep,' said Rosalie, 'full of sin, and far away from the fold; they don't love the Good Shepherd, and sometimes they don't even know that they _are lost_.”
“As I heard "The Voice that breathed o'er Eden" and saw the bride of twenty-five advance up the aisle to meet the bridegroom of forty-five awaiting her deeply flushed, in a distorted white waistcoat -- I had mercilessly alluded to his white waistcoat as an error of judgment -- I gave myself up for lost; _and I was lost_.”
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“I have had such a misfortune -- I have lost -- just now, on my way to or from the bank, I don't know which -- I have _lost_ dearest mother's -- your grandmother's old watch!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lost’.
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®emovies
Movies or TV shows where the titles are also common words, generally one-word titles.
lost, alien, bug, elephant, siege, gladiator, flock, captivity, piano, roots, freaks, moonstruck and 269 more...
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Confusually
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baffle, farrago, confound, befuddle, daze, disorient, discombobulate, stupefy, perplex, mystify, bewilder, boggle and 134 more...
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Past tense in -t.
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built, spent, bent, spilt, spoilt, ruint, thought, caught, brought, wisht, pent, spelt and 73 more...
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Emotions
affection, longing, cheerfulness, pride, optimism, relief, success, suprise, irritation, rage, hope, love and 29 more...
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saddest
what is the saddest word in english
lampbane "Just because I'm losing
Doesn't mean I'm lost
Doesn't mean I'll stop
Doesn't mean I'm in a cross" Mar 26, 2009
bilby A village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. In this case Lost is the Anglicisation of its Scots Gaelic name, Lòsda, meaning inn. Dec 31, 2007