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lost  (lôst, lst)

v.

Past tense and past participle of lose.

adj.

1. Unable to find one's way: a lost child.

2.

a. No longer in the possession, care, or control of someone or something: a lost pen.

b. No longer in existence; vanished or spent: lost youth.

c. No longer known or practiced: a lost art.

d. Beyond reach, communication, or influence: The expedition was lost to the world for two months.

3. Not used to one's benefit or advantage: a lost opportunity.

4. Having not been or unlikely to be won; unsuccessful: a lost battle; a lost cause.

5. Beyond recovery or redemption; fallen or destroyed: a lost soul.

6.

a. Completely involved or absorbed; rapt: lost in thought.

b. Bewildered or confused: I'm lostcan you start over?

Idiom:

be lost on

1. To have no effect or influence on: Her jokes were lost on me.

2. To be beyond the comprehension of: The lecture was lost on us.

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lost

Verb

the past of lose

Adjective

1. unable to find one's way

2. unable to be found or recovered

3. confused or bewildered: she seemed a bit lost

4. (sometimes foll. by on)not used, noticed, or understood by: not that the propaganda value of the game was lost on the authorities

5. no longer possessed or existing: lost credit

6. (foll. by in)engrossed (in): he remained lost in his own thoughts

7. morally fallen: a lost woman

8. damned: a lost soul

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	lost - people who are destined to die soon; "the agony of the doomed was in his voice" doomed people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience"
Adj.	1.	lost - no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered; "a lost child"; "lost friends"; "his lost book"; "lost opportunities" lost - spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed; "lost souls"; "a lost generation"; "a lost ship"; "the lost platoon" found - come upon unexpectedly or after searching; "found art"; "the lost-and-found department"
	2.	lost - 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" disoriented, confused unoriented - not having position or goal definitely set or ascertained; "engaged in unoriented study"; "unoriented until she looked at the map"
	3.	lost - spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed; "lost souls"; "a lost generation"; "a lost ship"; "the lost platoon" cursed, curst - deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier; "villagers shun the area believing it to be cursed"; "cursed with four daughter"; "not a cursed drop"; "his cursed stupidity"; "I'll be cursed if I can see your reasoning" lost - no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered; "a lost child"; "lost friends"; "his lost book"; "lost opportunities" unregenerated, unregenerate - not reformed morally or spiritually; "unregenerate human nature"; "unregenerate conservatism" saved - rescued; especially from the power and consequences of sin; "a saved soul"
	4.	lost - not gained or won; "a lost battle"; "a lost prize" won - not subject to defeat; "with that move it's a won game"
	5.	lost - incapable of being recovered or regained; "his lost honor" irrecoverable, unrecoverable - incapable of being recovered or regained
	6.	lost - not caught with the senses or the mind; "words lost in the din" missed uncomprehensible, incomprehensible - difficult to understand; "the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible"- A. Einstein
	7.	lost - 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" bemused, deep in thought, preoccupied thoughtful - exhibiting or characterized by careful thought; "a thoughtful paper"
	8.	lost - 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" at sea, baffled, bewildered, confounded, confused, mazed, mixed-up, befuddled, bemused perplexed - full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment; "perplexed language"; "perplexed state of the world"
	9.	lost - unable to function; without help helpless hopeless - without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success; "in an agony of hopeless grief"; "with a hopeless sigh he sat down"

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lost

adjective 1. missing, missed, disappeared, vanished, strayed, wayward, forfeited, misplaced, mislaid

adjective 2. bewildered, confused, puzzled, baffled, helpless, ignorant, perplexed, mystified, clueless (slang)

adjective 3. wasted, consumed, neglected, misused, squandered, forfeited, dissipated, misdirected, frittered away, misspent, misapplied

4. gone, finished, destroyed, vanished, extinct, defunct, died out

adjective 5. past, former, gone, dead, forgotten, lapsed, extinct, obsolete, out-of-date, bygone, unremembered

adjective 6. engrossed, taken up, absorbed, entranced, abstracted, absent, distracted, preoccupied, immersed, dreamy, rapt, spellbound

adjective 7. fallen, corrupt, depraved, wanton, abandoned, damned, profligate, dissolute, licentious, unchaste, irreclaimable

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In artillery and naval gunfire support, a spotting, or an observation used by a spotter or an observer to indicate that rounds fired by a gun or mortar were not observed.

Translations

lost [lɔst] pt, pp of lose

adj → perdido;

lost in thought → absorto, ensimismado

lost [lɔst] pt, pp of lose

adj → perdu(e);

to get lost vi → se perdre;

I'm lost → je me suis perdu;

lost in thought → perdu dans ses pensées;

lost and found property n (US) → objets trouvés;

lost and found n (US) → (bureau m des) objets trouvés

lost [lɔst] pt, pp of lose

adj [person, animal] → vermisst; [object] → verloren;

to be lost → sich verlaufen/verfahren haben;

to get lost → sich verlaufen/verfahren;

get lost! (inf) → verschwinde!;

lost in thought → in Gedanken verloren

lost [lɔst] pt, pp of lose

adj → perduto/a;

lost in thought → immerso or perso nei propri pensieri;

lost and found property n (US) → oggetti mpl smarriti;

lost and found n (US) → ufficio oggetti smarriti