'Lost' definitions:
Definition of 'lost'
From: WordNet
adjective
No longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered; "a lost child"; "lost friends"; "his lost book"; "lost opportunities" [ant: found]
adjective
Having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity; "I frequently find myself disoriented when I come up out of the subway"; "the anesthetic left her completely disoriented" [syn: confused, disoriented, lost]
adjective
Spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed; "lost souls"; "a lost generation"; "a lost ship"; "the lost platoon" [ant: saved]
adjective
Not gained or won; "a lost battle"; "a lost prize" [ant: won]
adjective
Incapable of being recovered or regained; "his lost honor"
adjective
Not caught with the senses or the mind; "words lost in the din" [syn: lost, missed]
adjective
Deeply absorbed in thought; "as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class"; "lost in thought"; "a preoccupied frown" [syn: bemused, deep in thought(p), lost(p), preoccupied]
adjective
Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment; "obviously bemused by his questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and confounded philosopher"; "just a mixed-up kid"; "she felt lost on the first day of school" [syn: baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at sea]
adjective
Unable to function; without help [syn: helpless, lost]
noun
People who are destined to die soon; "the agony of the doomed was in his voice" [syn: doomed, lost]
Definition of 'Lost'
From: GCIDE
- Lose \Lose\ (l[=oo]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lost (l[o^]st; 115) p. pr. & vb. n. Losing (l[=oo]z"[i^]ng).] [OE. losien to loose, be lost, lose, AS. losian to become loose; akin to OE. leosen to lose, p. p. loren, lorn, AS. le['i]san, p. p. loren (in comp.), D. verliezen, G. verlieren, Dan. forlise, Sw. f["o]rlisa, f["o]rlora, Goth. fraliusan, also to E. loose, a & v., L. luere to loose, Gr. ly`ein, Skr. l[=u] to cut. [root]127. Cf. Analysis, Palsy, Solve, Forlorn, Leasing, Loose, Loss.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg by amputation; to lose men in battle. [1913 Webster]
- Fair Venus wept the sad disaster Of having lost her favorite dove. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To cease to have; to possess no longer; to suffer diminution of; as, to lose one's relish for anything; to lose one's health. [1913 Webster]
- If the salt hath lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? --Matt. v. 13. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Not to employ; to employ ineffectually; to throw away; to waste; to squander; as, to lose a day; to lose the benefits of instruction. [1913 Webster]
- The unhappy have but hours, and these they lose. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to and; to go astray from; as, to lose one's way. [1913 Webster]
- He hath lost his fellows. --Shak [1913 Webster]
- 5. To ruin; to destroy; as destroy; as, the ship was lost on the ledge. [1913 Webster]
- The woman that deliberates is lost. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To be deprived of the view of; to cease to see or know the whereabouts of; as, he lost his companion in the crowd. [1913 Webster]
- Like following life thro' creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To fail to obtain or enjoy; to fail to gain or win; hence, to fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss; as, I lost a part of what he said. [1913 Webster]
- He shall in no wise lose his reward. --Matt. x. 42. [1913 Webster]
- I fought the battle bravely which I lost, And lost it but to Macedonians. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 8. To cause to part with; to deprive of. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- How should you go about to lose him a wife he loves with so much passion? --Sir W. Temple. [1913 Webster]
- 9. To prevent from gaining or obtaining. [1913 Webster]
- O false heart! thou hadst almost betrayed me to eternal flames, and lost me this glory. --Baxter. [1913 Webster]
- To lose ground, to fall behind; to suffer gradual loss or disadvantage.
- To lose heart, to lose courage; to become timid. "The mutineers lost heart." --Macaulay.
- To lose one's head, to be thrown off one's balance; to lose the use of one's good sense or judgment, through fear, anger, or other emotion. [1913 Webster]
- In the excitement of such a discovery, many scholars lost their heads. --Whitney.
- To lose one's self. (a) To forget or mistake the bearing of surrounding objects; as, to lose one's self in a great city. (b) To have the perceptive and rational power temporarily suspended; as, we lose ourselves in sleep.
- To lose sight of. (a) To cease to see; as, to lose sight of the land. (b) To overlook; to forget; to fail to perceive; as, he lost sight of the issue. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Lost'
From: GCIDE
- Lost \Lost\, a. [Prop. p. p. of OE. losien. See Lose, v. t.]
- 1. Parted with unwillingly or unintentionally; not to be found; missing; as, a lost book or sheep. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Parted with; no longer held or possessed; as, a lost limb; lost honor. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered; as, a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way; bewildered; perplexed; as, a child lost in the woods; a stranger lost in London. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope; as, a ship lost at sea; a woman lost to virtue; a lost soul. [1913 Webster]
- 7. Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible; as, lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor. [1913 Webster]
- 8. Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible; as, an island lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd. [1913 Webster]
- 9. Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as to be insensible of external things; as, to be lost in thought. [1913 Webster]
- Lost motion (Mach.), the difference between the motion of a driver and that of a follower, due to the yielding of parts or looseness of joints. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'lost'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandoned,
- abashed,
- ablated,
- abroad,
- absent,
- absentminded,
- absorbed,
- abstracted,
- accursed,
- adrift,
- astray,
- at sea,
- away,
- baffled,
- bemused,
- bewildered,
- beyond recall,
- beyond remedy,
- bothered,
- buried,
- by the board,
- bygone,
- castle-building,
- clueless,
- condemned,
- confounded,
- confused,
- consumed,
- corrupt,
- cureless,
- cursed,
- damned,
- daydreaming,
- daydreamy,
- dead,
- defunct,
- departed,
- depleted,
- desperate,
- destroyed,
- devastated,
- discomposed,
- disconcerted,
- dismayed,
- disoriented,
- dissipated,
- dissolute,
- distracted,
- distrait,
- distraught,
- disturbed,
- doomed,
- down the drain,
- dreaming,
- dreamy,
- drowsing,
- ecstatic,
- elsewhere,
- embarrassed,
- engrossed,
- eroded,
- exhausted,
- expended,
- extinct,
- fallen,
- faraway,
- forfeit,
- forfeited,
- forgotten,
- frantic,
- frenzied,
- godless,
- gone,
- gone away,
- gone to waste,
- graceless,
- guessing,
- half-awake,
- helpless,
- hopeless,
- immedicable,
- in a fix,
- in a maze,
- in a pickle,
- in a reverie,
- in a scrape,
- in a stew,
- in the clouds,
- incorrigible,
- incurable,
- inoperable,
- irreclaimable,
- irrecoverable,
- irredeemable,
- irreformable,
- irremediable,
- irreparable,
- irretrievable,
- irreversible,
- irrevocable,
- lacking,
- late,
- long-lost,
- lost in thought,
- lost to,
- lost to sight,
- lost to view,
- mazed,
- meditative,
- mislaid,
- misplaced,
- misremembered,
- missing,
- misspent,
- mooning,
- moonraking,
- museful,
- musing,
- mystified,
- napping,
- no more,
- nodding,
- nonexistent,
- obliterated,
- oblivious,
- obsolete,
- off the track,
- out of sight,
- out the window,
- passed,
- past,
- past and gone,
- past hope,
- past praying for,
- past recall,
- pensive,
- perplexed,
- perturbed,
- pipe-dreaming,
- preoccupied,
- put-out,
- puzzled,
- rapt,
- remediless,
- reprobate,
- ruined,
- run to seed,
- shriftless,
- shrunken,
- somewhere else,
- spent,
- squandered,
- stargazing,
- strayed,
- taken up,
- terminal,
- transported,
- turned around,
- unchaste,
- unconscious,
- unconverted,
- undone,
- unmitigable,
- unredeemable,
- unredeemed,
- unregenerate,
- unrelievable,
- unsalvable,
- unsalvageable,
- unwon,
- upset,
- used,
- used up,
- vanished,
- wanton,
- wasted,
- without a clue,
- woolgathering,
- worn away,
- wrapped in thought,
- wrecked
Words containing 'Lost'
- lost in,
- Lost City,
- Lost Creek,
- Lost Hills,
- Lost Nation,
- Lost River,
- Lost Springs,
- Lost motion,
- lost cause,
- lost in thought,
- lost soul,
- lost tribes,
- Lost City, OK,
- Lost Creek, TX,
- Lost Creek, WV,
- Lost Hills, CA,
- Lost Lake Woods,
- Lost Nation, IA,
- Lost River, ID,
- Lost Springs, KS,
- Lost Springs, WY,
- lost-and-found,
- Lost Lake Woods, MI,
- won-lost record,
- La Paloma-Lost Creek,
- La Paloma-Lost Creek, TX,
- done forpredicate kaputpredicate goneprenominal lost finishedpredicate