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lost

noun

1 lost

People who are destined to die soon.

synonym: doomed.

adjective

1 lost

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

Roget 732: unsuccessful, successless; failing, tripping etc. v.; at fault; unfortunate etc. 735.    abortive, addle, stillborn; fruitless, ... show more

Roget 2: inexistent, nonexistent etc. 1; negative, blank; missing, omitted; absent etc. 187; insubstantial, shadowy, ... show more

Roget 449: disappearing etc. v.; evanescent; missing, lost; lost to sight, lost to view; gone.   

Roget 776: losing etc. v.; not having etc. 777.1. shorn of, deprived of; denuded, bereaved, bereft, minus, cut off; ... show more

Roget 824: excited etc. v.; wrought up, up the qui vive [Fr.], astir, sparkling; in a quiver etc. 821, in a fever, in a ferment, in a blaze, ... show more

Roget 828: in pain, in a state of pain, full of pain etc. n.; suffering etc. v.; pained, afflicted, worried, displeased etc. ... show more

Roget 837: cheerless, joyless, spiritless; uncheerful, uncheery; unlively; unhappy etc. 828; melancholy, dismal, somber, dark, ... show more

Roget 951: impenitent, uncontrite, obdurate; hard, hardened; seared, recusant; unrepentant; relentless, remorseless, graceless, shriftless.    lost, incorrigible, ... show more

Roget 187: absent, not present, away, nonresident, gone, from home; missing; lost; wanting; omitted; nowhere to be found; inexistence etc. ... show more

2 lost

Having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity.

synonyms: confused, disoriented.

3 lost

Spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed.

4 lost

Not gained or won.

5 lost

Incapable of being recovered or regained.

6 lost

Not caught with the senses or the mind:
— Words lost in the din.

synonym: missed.

7 lost

Deeply absorbed in thought:
— Lost in thought.

synonyms: bemused, preoccupied.

Roget 458: inattentive; unobservant, unmindful, heedless, unthinking, unheeding, undiscerning; inadvertent; mindless, regardless, respectless, listless etc. (indifferent) ... show more

Polish: nieobecny, zamyślony, zadumany

8 lost

Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment:
— She felt lost on the first day of school.

synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, mazed, mixed-up.

Roget 475: uncertain; casual; random etc. (aimless) 621; changeable etc. 149.    doubtful, dubious; indecisive; unsettled, undecided, ... show more

9 lost

Unable to function; without help.

synonym: helpless.


Moby thesaurus: abandoned, abashed, ablated, abroad, absent, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, accursed, adrift, astray, at sea, away, baffled, bemused, bewildered, beyond recall, beyond remedy, bothered, buried ... show more.

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lose

verb

1 lose

Fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense.

Roget 506: forget; be forgetful etc. adj.; fall into oblivion, sink into oblivion; have a short memory etc. n., have no head.    forget one's own name, have on the tip of one's tongue, come in one ear and go out the other.    slip memory, ... show more

Dutch: afvallen, kwijtraken, verliezen

2 lose

Fail to win.

Dutch: verliezen

3 lose

Suffer the loss of a person through death or removal.

Dutch: ontvallen

4 lose

Miss from one's possessions; lose sight of.

Dutch: kwijtraken, verliezen

5 lose

Allow to go out of sight or mind.

6 lose

Fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit.

synonym: turn a loss.

Dutch: verliezen

7 lose

Fail to get or obtain.

8 lose

Fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind.

synonym: miss.

Roget 732: fail; be unsuccessful etc. adj.; not succeed etc. 731; make vain efforts etc. n.; do in vain, labor in vain, toil in vain; flunk [U.S.]; ... show more

Roget 776: lose; incur a loss, experience a loss, meet with a loss; miss; mislay, let slip, allow to slip through the fingers; be without etc. (exempt) 777.1; forfeit.    get rid of ... show more

Roget 519: be unintelligible etc. adj.; require explanation etc. 522; have a doubtful meaning, pass comprehension.    render unintelligible etc. adj.; conceal etc. 528; ... show more

Dutch: ontgaan, ontglippen, ontsnappen, voorbijgaan

9 lose

Withdraw, as from reality.

10 lose

Be set at a disadvantage:
— The painting loses something in this light.

synonym: suffer.


Moby thesaurus: be bereaved of, be found wanting, be unsuccessful, bereave, bite the dust, bow, bow to, capitulate, clear, come to grief, consume, decline, default, disinherit, displace, dispossess, dissipate, divest, draw a blank, drop ... show more.

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