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Meaning of 'lost' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Lost [ v. t.]
- Parted with unwillingly or unintentionally; not to be found; missing; as, a lost book or sheep.
- Parted with; no longer held or possessed; as, a lost limb; lost honor.
- Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered; as, a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit.
- Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way; bewildered; perplexed; as, a child lost in the woods; a stranger lost in London.
- 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.
- Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible; as, lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor.
- Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible; as, an island lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd.
- Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as to be insensible of external things; as, to be lost in thought.

Meaning of 'lost' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . lost [ n]
Meaning (1):
- people who are destined to die soon
Example in sentence:
  • the agony of the doomed was in his voice
2 . lost [ a]
Meaning (2):
- not gained or won
Example in sentence:
  • a lost battle;
  • a lost prize
Meaning (3):
- no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered
Example in sentence:
  • a lost child;
  • his lost book;
  • lost friends;
  • lost opportunities
Meaning (4):
- spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed
Example in sentence:
  • a lost generation;
  • a lost ship;
  • lost souls;
  • the lost platoon
5 . lost [ s]
Meaning (5):
- perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment
Example in sentence:
  • a cloudy and confounded philosopher;
  • bewildered and confused;
  • just a mixed-up kid;
  • obviously bemused by his questions;
  • she felt lost on the first day of school
Meaning (6):
- deeply absorbed in thought
Example in sentence:
  • a preoccupied frown;
  • as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class;
  • lost in thought
Meaning (7):
- incapable of being recovered or regained
Example in sentence:
  • his lost honor
Meaning (8):
- having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity
Example in sentence:
  • I frequently find myself disoriented when I come up out of the subway;
  • the anesthetic left her completely disoriented
Meaning (9):
- not caught with the senses or the mind
Example in sentence:
  • words lost in the din

Nearby Words:

los losable losange lose losel losenger losengerie loser losing losingly

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