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lost (lôst, läst)

transitive verb, intransitive verb

adjective

    1. destroyed or ruined physically or morally
    2. Theol. damned; reprobate
  2. not to be found; missing
  3. no longer held or possessed; parted with
  4. no longer seen, heard, or known a person lost in a crowd
  5. not gained or won; attended with defeat
  6. having wandered from the way; uncertain as to one's location
  7. bewildered or ill at ease
  8. not spent profitably or usefully; wasted
  9. spent away from one's place of work, as because of illness to make up lost time
lost Idioms

get lost!

☆
Slang go away!

lost in

absorbed in; engrossed in

lost on

without effect on; failing to influence

lost to

  1. no longer in the possession or enjoyment of
  2. no longer available to
  3. having no sense of (shame, right, etc.); insensible to

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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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lost Synonyms

lost

modif.

  1. Not to be found

    misplaced, mislaid, invisible, cast away, missing, hidden, obscured, gone astray, nowhere to be found, strayed, lacking, wandered off, forfeited, vanished, wandering, minus, without, gone out of one's possession; see also absent, gone 2.

    Antonyms found*, come back*, returned. *

  2. Ignorant of the way

    disoriented, perplexed, bewildered, ignorant; see doubtful 2.

  3. Destroyed

    demolished, devastated, wasted; see destroyed, ruined 1.

  4. No longer to be gained

    gone, passed, costly; see destroyed, ruined 1, unprofitable 1.

  5. Helpless

    feeble, sickly, disabled; see weak 1, 3.

get lost*

go away, leave, begone; see get out.


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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

lost Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • have: You 've Lost that Loving Feeling Jenny Dowling, alias Scrooge Has Christmas lost its sparkle for you?

Modifying Another Word

  • so: It was like my God shutting a door on me, I have never felt so lost, due to my own selfish actions.

Modifies a noun

  • soul: Lost Souls, is a modern horror movie which has all the elements of the classic moments.

Used with adjective complement

  • get: Signing & Getting lost: Signing for cycle routes in the UK is dreadful.

Preposition: in

  • translation: The first film to be broadcast free-to-air will be Lost in Translation.
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lost quotes

The woman that deliberates is lost.

-Addison,Joseph

What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninetyand nine in the wilderness, andgoafter that whichislost, until hefind it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

-Bible (NewTestament)

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: thosethatthougavest me Ihave kept, and noneof them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

-Bible (NewTestament)

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