lost
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.
preoccupied; rapt: He seems lost in thought.
distracted; distraught; desperate; hopeless: the lost look of a man trapped and afraid.
simple past tense and past participle of lose.
Idioms about lost
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.
Origin of lost
1Other words for lost
1 | former, past |
3 | absent, missing |
4 | squandered |
Opposites for lost
Other words from lost
- un·lost, adjective
Words Nearby lost
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How to use lost in a sentence
Those who were at 45 to 50 hours before are down to 24 to 32 hours per week, Cooper said, and he has not seen any extra hiring to make up the lost time.
Info About Local Post Office Operations Is Conflicting and Hard to Come By | Ashly McGlone and Kate Nucci | August 27, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoThis feature will help sites that do not have more exposure or access to Google to hopefully rectify the issue faster and thus reduce any lost Google traffic due to a false positive security issue.
Google tests reporting security issue false positives in Search Console | Barry Schwartz | August 26, 2020 | Search Engine LandFederal regulators say much of the lost money came from people emptying their pockets for security scans.
Travelers left nearly a million dollars at airport checkpoints last year | Rachel Schallom | August 22, 2020 | FortuneSome Airbnb guests argued the refund process was complicated while hosts complained that the company didn’t do more to compensate them for their lost income.
“Nobody wants that, but we may not have a choice, and the lost time that could’ve been used to build up these systems will become really apparent,” she says.
The U.S. largely wasted time bought by COVID-19 lockdowns. Now what? | Jonathan Lambert | July 1, 2020 | Science News
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.
Everyone at This Dinner Party Has Lost Someone | Samantha Levine | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTHe 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.
The Red Year | Louis TracyHow much of the imagination, how much of the intellect, evaporates and is lost while we seek to embody it in words!
Pearls of Thought | Maturin M. BallouKum Kale has been a brilliant bit of work, though I fear we have lost nearly a quarter of our effectives.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian Hamilton
British Dictionary definitions for lost
/ (lɒst) /
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 (usually imperative) informal go away and stay away
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with lost
In addition to the idioms beginning with lost
- lost cause
- lost in the shuffle
- lost in thought
- lost on one
also see:
- get lost
- he who hesitates is lost
- make up for lost time
- no love lost
- you've lost me
Also seelose.
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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