What does LOST mean?

Definitions for LOST
lɔst, lɒstlost

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Princeton's WordNet

  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

Wiktionary

  1. lostadjective

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

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  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.

Wikipedia

  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.

ChatGPT

  1. lost

    Lost is a state of being unable to find one's way or direction, either literally or metaphorically. It can refer to being physically disoriented or missing, or feeling confused, uncertain, or disconnected.

Webster Dictionary

  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.]

Wikidata

  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 Terms

  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

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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

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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. Peter Davis:

    We wouldn't have lost farms and houses like we have if we had been allowed to burn and use fire as a management tool.

  2. Police Chief Mike Koval:

    I'm not here to do a character workup on someone who lost his life less than 24 hours ago.

  3. Magdymar Leon:

    What are the implications? One is that the individual doesn't have the means to control a decision to have children or not. That right is lost. On the other hand, the ability to protect oneself from sexually transmitted diseases is also lost.

  4. Eddie Spearman:

    It got the piano and organ and all of that stuff, im lost. I dont know what to do until all the water goes down.

  5. David Webb:

    Call it the Carrie trade. She has irrevocably lost the public's trust, her minders in Beijing, while expressing public support for now, have clearly lined her up for the chop.

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