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What does lost mean?

Definitions in simple English

lost Adjective

— If you are lost you do not know where you are. You might not know how to get home. I was lost in the woods for a week. — If something is lost you do not know where it is. My phone is lost. — If something is lost it is gone. It might not exist any more. All my hope is lost. — If something is lost it has failed. Trying to reach her is a lost cause.

lost

— adjective no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered a lost child lost friends his lost book lost opportunities — adjective (= confused, disoriented) 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 — adjective spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed lost souls a lost generation a lost ship the lost platoon — adjective not gained or won a lost battle a lost prize — adjective incapable of being recovered or regained his lost honor — adjective not caught with the senses or the mind words lost in the din — noun (= doomed) people who are destined to die soon the agony of the doomed was in his voice — adjective (= helpless) unable to function; without help — adjective (= bemused, preoccupied) 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 — adjective (= bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, mixed-up) 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

Synonyms lost synonyms

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lost English » English

disappear confused missing bewildered stray ruined gone disappeared wasted strayed vanish lose one’s way destroyed bemused perish befuddled vanished mixed-up lose hide doomed disoriented decayed confounded astray preoccupied perplexed perished missed misplaced mazed gone astray get lost baffled at sea washed-up wandering slip away puzzled nonplussed hopeless helpless forgotten fallen failed fail done for diminished deprived deep in thought

Topics lost topics

What do people use lost to talk about?

Physical actions Move Travel

Lose your way

What words refer to losing your way?

be lost not know where you are get lost lose your way

Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Angry

What words refer to feeling angry for a long time?

boil burn chafe fume fuss mope seethe simmer smolder stew sulk sullen bear a grudge hold a grudge against have something against have it in for hold something against someone there is no love lost between

Examples lost examples

How do I use lost in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I lost my inspiration.

I've lost my glasses.

I lost my purse on my way to school.

If I could have a wish, I'd wish I could make up for lost time.

I got lost when I visited you for the first time.

Tracy lost her glasses.

He who hesitates is lost.

This is the pen that I lost yesterday.

I have lost my umbrella.

I have lost my key.

I lost my way and, what was worse, it began to rain.

One million people lost their lives in the war.

I have lost my wallet.

Thanks to you I've lost my appetite.

Do not despair, all is not yet lost.

The scientific theory I like the best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost luggage.

You can't get lost in big cities; there are maps everywhere!

I must make up for lost time.

The professor seemed to be lost in thought.

I just lost at the races so I'm flat broke.

I've suddenly lost weight.

You must compensate him for the money he lost.

Unless you make a decision quickly, the opportunity will be lost.

Thanks to your stupidity, we lost the game.

Movie subtitles

You guys lost to us, you dogs of a defeated country!

Just as you lost your father, I have lost my older brother, Clovis.

You accept that you've lost?

We are the lost boys of the Sudan!

Because, from trillions of kilometres away, these small planets get lost in the blinding glare of their star's brightness.

This is like looking for your lost contact on a beach.

No, we're lost.

I can't believe you got us so lost.

We're not lost.

At that point, I just, you know, lost it.

Take all of these men and get lost!

Yeah, the irony's not lost on me. But, then, nothing about this place makes any sense.

We lost the right kidney.

On March 10, 1950 a year and a half worth of work was lost.

Have you lost your mind?

He's lost the touch!

Abd el-Kader has lost the battle but not the war.

But trust me, he lost face and therefore the game.

All hope is lost, My Lord.

You've already lost the battle.

I have already lost 2 sons.

Tell him that I lost a son. to cholera, and that my youngest might go into the mountains.

So not only did I lose my wife, I lost my best friend and my job.

You lost my money.

Now, get lost. Yeah, okay.

We lost, Derek, all right?

He lost the lottery ticket.

I'd hate it if Musashi-sama lost.

We've lost.

Yeah, the irony's not lost on me.

Right kidney's lost blood supply.

We lost Hector.

News and current affairs

With his Churchillian prose and almost Shakespearean cadences, his mellifluous phrases and sonorous voice carried for decades a message of hope from a people that could have lost all hope and trust in humanity after the horrors of World War II.

If the French Presidency fails to seize the moment in Zagreb, an historic opportunity will be lost.

This conclusion should not be lost on high-flying emerging-market economies, especially in Asia - currently the world's fastest-growing region and the leader of what many now call a two-speed world.

Unlike economic globalization, however, it remains to be seen whether this new, fast-paced style of soccer will prevail (after all, the young blood of Spain lost to the Old Boys of France).

Are all the extremists searching for a new coherence, for a lost illusion of togetherness and a new hope of resurrection?

Those who submitted had their passports withdrawn, lost their jobs, and were forbidden to speak to the press.

Another six months should not be lost.

Another six months have been lost.

The logic of stagnant employment is not that adding jobs to the American economy is impossible, but that demand growth is insufficient to create more jobs than are lost.

The recent emergence of additional powers - the European Union, China, India, and a Russia driven to recover its lost status - has eroded America's capacity to shape events unilaterally.

Although we cannot know how many lives would be lost and how much misery would be inflicted in an invasion of Iraq to oust Saddam's regime, the cost would unquestionably be great.

Putin's Russia has already lost 12 leading journalists to murder in the past six years.

The supposedly civilizing influence of being a Western partner - chairing a G-8 summit in Saint Petersburg for example - seems to have been lost on Putin's Kremlin cabal.

In the end, policymakers must remember that whether or not the US and Europe avoid a lost decade depends on their ability to retain productive vitality in their economies, not simply on short-term demand-stimulation measures.

Will it still be the capital of a country whose citizens view the future bleakly and whose politicians have totally lost touch with the electorate?

This year's snowmelt caused landslides and flooding - a warning of more soil erosion and destruction of arable land to come; hundreds died and thousands lost their livelihoods.

Finally, while the Taliban lost power ten years ago, discrimination and violence against women has occurred in Afghan society for centuries.

But, just as the post-Kobe rebuilding did little to end the first of Japan's lost decades, a similar outcome can be expected this time.

Like King Lear after he lost his kingdom, there is nothing France can do about its lost influence but rage impotently.

It is time to put this principle into effect before many more innocent lives are lost.

In the new context set by the war in Georgia, the urgency of Turkey becoming a real bridge between the nations of the Caucasus is not lost on anyone.

Neither the state nor the people quite knew how they felt about Afghanistan or Chernobyl - one a lost war, the other an incomprehensible catastrophe.

Two lost decades later, the guinea pig, Japan, might have a view on which approach works best.

Al Qaeda lost its base in Afghanistan when the Taliban government that had provided it sanctuary was ousted from power.

In the past, jets flying into ash from volcanoes in the US, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Mexico have temporarily lost engine power, and in one case, dropped thousands of feet, although all managed to land safely.

Park, who lost her first bid for the GNP's nomination to Lee in 2007, needs to ensure that no rupture with her erstwhile rival knocks her off the path to victory in 2012.

Unlike former Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori's daughter, who lost her presidential bid in Peru last month, Park is likely to defy her family's tragic history.

The best chance to end cotton subsidies soon was lost last December, when African countries, aided by India and Brazil, pressed hard for the elimination of cotton subsidies, at the World Trade Organization's meeting in Hong Kong.

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