Definitions of LOST [ɔst, lɒst]

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Definition of 'LOST'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) lost
no longer possessed:
lost friends.

2.  lost
no longer to be found:
lost articles.

3.  lost
having gone astray:
lost children.

4.  lost
not used to good purpose:
a lost advantage.

5.  lost
not won:
a lost prize.

6.  lost
attended with defeat:
a lost battle.

7.  lost
destroyed; ruined:
lost ships.

8.  lost
preoccupied:
lost in thought.

9.  lost
distracted; distraught:
the lost look of a man trapped.

10. (v.) lost
pt. and pp. of

11.  lost
no longer belonging to.

12.  lost
no longer possible or open to:
The opportunity was lost to us.

13.  lost
insensible to:
lost to all sense of duty.

Definition of 'LOST'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (adj) doomed, lost
people who are destined to die soon
"the agony of the doomed was in his voice"

2. (adj) lost
no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered
"a lost child"; "lost friends"; "his lost book"; "lost opportunities"

3. (adj) confused, disoriented, lost
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"

4. (adj) lost
spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed
"lost souls"; "a lost generation"; "a lost ship"; "the lost platoon"

5. (adj) lost
not gained or won
"a lost battle"; "a lost prize"

6. (adj) lost
incapable of being recovered or regained
"his lost honor"

7. (adj) lost, missed
not caught with the senses or the mind
"words lost in the din"

8. (adj) bemused, deep in thought(p), lost(p), 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"

9. (adj) baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at sea
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"

10. (adj) helpless, lost
unable to function; without help

Definition of 'LOST'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (adjective) lost
not knowing where you are
After twenty minutes, she knew she was lost.; Take the map, or you'll get lost.

2.  lost
impossible to find or have again
lost treasure; The documents got lost when we moved.; a long-lost love; $20 million in lost revenues

3.  lost
lacking confidence or the ability to deal with a situation
He always felt lost at parties.; I felt completely lost in that class.

4.  lost
get lost
used to tell sb to go away

5.  lost
a lost cause
sth that will not succeed
He advised his client to stop giving money to lost causes.

6.  lost
lost for words
unsure what to say
For once, he was lost for words.

7.  lost
lost on sb
not understood by sb
The irony was lost on her.

8.  lost
make up for lost time
to do sth a lot because you have never done it or have not done it for a long time
Jackson regrets not writing for the past two years, but is ready to make up for lost time this year.

9.  lost
the past tense and past participle of "lose"

Definition of 'LOST'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) LOST
parted with unwillingly or unintentionally; not to be found; missing; as, a lost book or sheep

2. (verb) LOST
parted with; no longer held or possessed; as, a lost limb; lost honor

3. (verb) LOST
not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered; as, a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit

4. (verb) LOST
having wandered from, or unable to find, the way; bewildered; perplexed; as, a child lost in the woods; a stranger lost in London

5. (verb) LOST
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

6. (verb) LOST
hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible; as, lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor

7. (verb) LOST
not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible; as, an island lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd

8. (verb) LOST
occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as to be insensible of external things; as, to be lost in thought

Translation of 'LOST'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: missing; no longer to be found a lost ticket.
Afrikaans: verlore	Arabic: مَفْقود	Bulgarian: изгубен
Brazilian: perdido	Czech: ztracený	German: verloren
Danish: tabt; mistet	Greek: χαμένος	Spanish: perdido
Estonian: kadunud	Farsi: مفقود	Finnish: hävinnyt
French: perdu	Hebrew: אָבוּד	Hindi: गुम हुआ
Croatian: izgubljen	Hungarian: elvesztett	Indonesian: hilang
Icelandic: tÿndur, glataður	Italian: perso	Japanese: なくした
Korean: 분실한	Lithuanian: pamestas, dingęs	Latvian: pazaudēts
Malay: hilang	Dutch: zoekgeraakt	Norwegian: borte, forsvunnet, mistet
Polish: z(a)gubiony	Persian: ،گم شده مفقود	Pashto: ورك شوى،نا پيدا
Portuguese: perdido	Romanian: pierdut	Russian: потерянный
Slovak: stratený	Slovenian: izgubljen	Serbian: izgubljen
Swedish: förlorad, borttappad	Thai: สูญหาย	Turkish: kayıp, kaybolmuş
Taiwanese: 失去的，遺失的	Ukrainian: загублений, втрачений	Urdu: گمشدہ
Vietnamese: lạc mất	Chinese: 失去的
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