Lost

/lɒst/ · verb

Meaning

simple past and past participle of lose.

Definitions by Sense

1. simple past and past participle of lose
2. Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way.
3. In an unknown location; unable to be found.
4. Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible.
5. Parted with; no longer held or possessed.
6. Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered.
7. Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope.
8. Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible.

Example Sentences

The children were soon lost in the forest.

Deep beneath the ocean, the Titanic was lost to the world.

an island lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd

a lost limb; lost honour

a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit; no time should be lost

a ship lost at sea; a woman lost to virtue; a lost soul

They struck me also as being of surpassing interest as representing, probably with studious accuracy, the last rites of the dead as practised among an utterly lost people, and even then I thought how envious some antiquarian friends of my own at Cambridge would be if ever I found an opportunity of describing these wonderful remains to them.

lost to shame; lost to all sense of honour

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Word Forms

• los'
• loss
• loster
• more lost
• lostest
• most lost

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