Definitions for lost
lɔst, lɒstlost

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. doomed, lostadjective

   people who are destined to die soon

   "the agony of the doomed was in his voice"

2. lostadjective

   no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered

   "a lost child"; "lost friends"; "his lost book"; "lost opportunities"

3. confused, disoriented, lostadjective

   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. lostadjective

   spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed

   "lost souls"; "a lost generation"; "a lost ship"; "the lost platoon"

5. lostadjective

   not gained or won

   "a lost battle"; "a lost prize"

6. lostadjective

   incapable of being recovered or regained

   "his lost honor"

7. lost, missedadjective

   not caught with the senses or the mind

   "words lost in the din"

8. bemused, deep in thought(p), lost(p), preoccupiedadjective

   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. baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at seaadjective

   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. helpless, lostadjective

    unable to function; without help

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. lostadjective

   Unable to find one's way; unavailable, with location unknown.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lostparticipial adj.

   No longer perceptible.

   Etymology: from lose.

   In seventeen days appear’d your pleasing coast,
   And woody mountains, half in vapours lost. Alexander Pope, Odys.

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1. Lost

   Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile is a song written by Johnny Cunningham and recorded by David Allan Coe. It was the first single from Coe's 1984 album Just Divorced, and was released to radio in early 1984. The song is Coe's highest-charting single, with a peak of number two on the U. S. country music charts.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lostverb

   parted with unwillingly or unintentionally; not to be found; missing; as, a lost book or sheep

2. Lostverb

   parted with; no longer held or possessed; as, a lost limb; lost honor

3. Lostverb

   not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered; as, a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit

4. Lostverb

   having wandered from, or unable to find, the way; bewildered; perplexed; as, a child lost in the woods; a stranger lost in London

5. Lostverb

   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. Lostverb

   hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible; as, lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor

7. Lostverb

   not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible; as, an island lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd

8. Lostverb

   occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as to be insensible of external things; as, to be lost in thought

9. Etymology: [Prop. p. p. of OE. losien. See Lose, v. t.]

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1. Lost

   Lost is an American television series that was originally aired on the American Broadcasting Company from September 22, 2004 to May 23, 2010, consisting of six seasons. Lost is a drama series containing elements of science fiction and the supernatural that follows the survivors of the crash of a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island somewhere in the South Pacific Ocean. The story is told in a heavily serialized manner. Episodes typically feature a primary storyline on the island, as well as a secondary storyline from another point in a character's life. Lost was created by Jeffrey Lieber, J. J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof who share story-writing credits for the pilot episode, which Abrams directed. Throughout the show's run, Lindelof and Carlton Cuse served as showrunners and head writers, working together with a large number of other executive producers and writers. Due to its large ensemble cast and the cost of filming primarily on location in Oahu, Hawaii, the series was one of the most expensive on television. The fictional universe and mythology of Lost is expanded upon by a number of related media, most importantly a series of short mini-episodes called Missing Pieces, and a 12-minute epilogue titled "The New Man in Charge."

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. lost

   The state of being foundered or cast away; said of a ship when she has either sunk, or been beat to pieces by the violence of the sea.

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1. LOST

   What does LOST stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the LOST acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'lost' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #582

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'lost' in Written Corpus Frequency: #558

3. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'lost' in Adjectives Frequency: #505

Anagrams for lost »

1. slot

2. STOL

3. lots

How to pronounce lost?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

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   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

How to say lost in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of lost in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of lost in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of lost in a Sentence

1. Surfside Mayor Charles Mayor Burkett:

   I first want to touch on something that's become more and more apparent as the operation has gone on -- and that is the significance of that site with respect to the people who have lost their lives there, it is the right thing to do because it is obvious that this has become more than a collapsed building site. It's a holy site.

2. Marcel Proust:

   The only paradise is paradise lost.

3. Jerry Boykin:

   What cannot be lost on the SPLC’s anniversary celebration is that their employees have identified racism and sexual harassment as a part of the SPLC’s culture.

4. Erin Thompson:

   We've lost a great amount. This was one of the best-preserved temples of the ancient world.

5. Abigail Spanberger:

   We need to not ever use the words' socialist' or' socialism' ever again. Because while people think it doesn't matter, it does matter. And we lost good members because of it.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=lost
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Lost
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=lost
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lost
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=lost
7. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=lost