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lost
[ lawst, lost ]
adjective
- no longer possessed or retained:
lost friends.
- no longer to be found:
lost articles.
- having gone astray or missed the way; bewildered as to place, direction, etc.:
lost children.
- not used to good purpose, as opportunities, time, or labor; wasted:
a lost advantage.
- being something that someone has failed to win:
a lost prize.
- ending in or attended with defeat:
a lost battle.
- destroyed or ruined:
lost ships.
He seems lost in thought.
the lost look of a man trapped and afraid.
verb (used with or without object)
- simple past tense and past participle of lose.
lost
/ lɒst /
adjective
- unable to be found or recovered
- unable to find one's way or ascertain one's whereabouts
- confused, bewildered, or helpless
he is lost in discussions of theory
- sometimes foll by on not utilized, noticed, or taken advantage of (by)
rational arguments are lost on her
- no longer possessed or existing because of defeat, misfortune, or the passage of time
a lost art
- destroyed physically
the lost platoon
- foll by to no longer available or open (to)
- foll by to insensible or impervious (to a sense of shame, justice, etc)
- foll by in engrossed (in)
he was lost in his book
- morally fallen
a lost woman
- damned
a lost soul
- get lost informal.usually imperative go away and stay away
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Other Words From
- un·lost adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of lost1
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Idioms and Phrases
- get lost, Slang.
- to absent oneself:
I think I'll get lost before an argument starts.
- to stop being a nuisance:
If they call again, tell them to get lost.
- lost to,
- no longer belonging to.
- no longer possible or open to:
The opportunity was lost to him.
- insensible to:
lost to all sense of duty.
More idioms and phrases containing lost
- get lost
- he who hesitates is lost
- make up for lost time
- no love lost
- you've lost me
- lose
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Example Sentences
So in that sense we have gotten close to the families that have lost loved ones, be it from one side or the other.
After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.
He was not originally so uninhibited, however, as can now be seen in his “lost” novel, Skylight.
“The origin of Brokpas is lost in antiquity,” a research article from the University of Delhi notes.
He lost his bid for a fourth term to George Pataki that year.
The patache was never seen again, and there is not much doubt that it was lost with all hands on board.
This vessel, loaded with supplies, went ashore and was lost; and one hundred and twenty Japanese and three Dutchmen were drowned.
They held the compound against repeated assaults, and lost several men in hand-to-hand fighting.
How much of the imagination, how much of the intellect, evaporates and is lost while we seek to embody it in words!
Kum Kale has been a brilliant bit of work, though I fear we have lost nearly a quarter of our effectives.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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