Definition of lost in English English dictionary
- Unable to find one's way; unavailable, with location unknown
Deep beneath the ocean, the Titanic was lost to the world.
- Simple past tense and past participle of lose
- {a} no longer perceptible, gone, perished
- spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed; "lost souls"; "a lost generation"; "a lost ship"; "the lost platoon"
- the Force of the mystical, magical, and forgotten The source of faith and magic, and the governing Force for esoteric occult knowledges Governed by Saturn, the Mystic
- people who are destined to die soon; "the agony of the doomed was in his voice"
- incapable of being recovered or regained; "his lost honor
- not gained or won; "a lost battle"; "a lost prize"
- Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way; bewildered; perplexed; as, a child lost in the woods; a stranger lost in London
- You use lost to refer to a period or state of affairs that existed in the past and no longer exists. He seemed to pine for his lost youth the relics of a lost civilisation
- Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered; as, a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit
- unable to function; without help
- Parted with unwillingly or unintentionally; not to be found; missing; as, a lost book or sheep
- Lost is the past tense and past participle of lose
- adj [{of objects}] hilang 2 adj [{of persons}] tersesat (sesat)
- If something is lost, it is not used properly and is considered wasted. Fox is not bitter about the lost opportunity to compete in the Games The advantage is lost
- (adj ) oSanin, ohshahnihn
- A person who is presumed to have wandered away and has become lost and unable to return to a known location
- If you feel lost, you feel very uncomfortable because you are in an unfamiliar situation. Of the funeral he remembered only the cold, the waiting, and feeling very lost I feel lost and lonely in a strange town alone
- not caught with the senses or the mind; "words lost in the din"
- 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"
- 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
- Parted with; no longer held or possessed; as, a lost limb; lost honor
- Dead "He got lost" means he ain't coming back without a resurrection
- no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered; "a lost child"; "lost friends"; "his lost book"; "lost opportunities"
- If something is lost, or gets lost, you cannot find it, for example because you have forgotten where you put it. a lost book My paper got lost He was scrabbling for his pen, which had got lost somewhere under the sheets of paper
- Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible; as, an island lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd
- nIII: talk
- 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"
- If you are lost or if you get lost, you do not know where you are or are unable to find your way. Barely had I set foot in the street when I realised I was lost I took a wrong turn and we got lost in the mountains
- If advice or a comment is lost on someone, they do not understand it or they pay no attention to it. The meaning of that was lost on me. the past tense and past participle of lose
- The item has been lost
- Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible; as, lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor
- If you describe something as lost, you mean that you no longer have it or it no longer exists. a lost job or promotion The sense of community is lost The riots will also mean lost income for Los Angeles County
- Dead "He got lost," means he ain't coming back without a resurrection
- {s} no longer in the possession of, misplaced; irrecoverable; unable to find the right way to go; defeated; destroyed; involved, immersed (in one's thoughts, etc.)
- incapable of being recovered or regained; "his lost honor"
- When you have no clue how to play the lanes
- 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"
- past of lose
- Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as to be insensible of external things; as, to be lost in thought
- not caught with the senses or the mind; "words lost in the din" no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered; "a lost child"; "lost friends"; "his lost book"; "lost opportunities" spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed; "lost souls"; "a lost generation"; "a lost ship"; "the lost platoon" not gained or won; "a lost battle"; "a lost prize" incapable of being recovered or regained; "his lost honor
- If you describe a person or group of people as lost, you think that they do not have a clear idea of what they want to do or achieve. They are a lost generation in search of an identity
- Losing vision and body awareness in a move
- no longer known; irretrievable; "a forgotten art"; "a lost art"; "lost civilizations"
- lore
- Lost Wages
- Las Vegas (city in Nevada)
- lost and found
- A department, service or location where items that are found can be claimed by their owners
Well, if you can't find your glasses then go to lost and found and ask if anyone turned them in.
- lost and founds
- plural form of lost and found
- lost cause
- A cause, attempt, or effort that is hopeless or futile
He has already made up his mind, and it's a lost cause to try to change it.
- lost count
- Simple past tense and past participle of lose count
- lost errand
- a mission likely to fail
The detective expressed his conviction that they were both on a lost errand. He was convinced that the boy would not make his appearance; although when pressed by Clive to do so, he declined to give the reasons for his conviction.
- lost errands
- plural form of lost errand
- lost face
- Simple past tense and past participle of lose face
- lost for words
- speechless because of surprise, or shock
When I saw the gift, I was lost for words.
- lost in action
- Rejected, nullified, incapacitated, or rendered unavailable
The President will continue to push for his legislation, but White House officials recognize that, with the election approaching, it won't get any easier.
- lost in action
- Destroyed during military combat
Summing up the furious October 22-27 battle in the longest Naval communique of the war, the department identified six American ships lost in action.
- lost in action
- Killed during military combat
Kouchner's comments came after another French marine was killed bringing to 29 the number of French forces lost in action.
- lost in thought
- Being preoccupied with one's thoughts rather than paying attention to reality
These lines the knight perus'd, and, lost in thought, / He long in vain the secret meaning sought.
- lost it
- Simple past tense and past participle of lose it
- lost properties
- plural form of lost property
- lost property
- Property that is found in such a state as to make it likely that the original owner unintentionally ceased to be in possession of the property, and would be unable to locate the property
- lost property
- A help desk or department in a store, mall, or other such facility where customers who have lost an item can inquire as to whether it has been found and turned in; a lost and found
- lost sheep
- A disadvantaged or marginalized person who can be "brought back into the fold" with a little effort
- lost track
- Simple past tense and past participle of lose track
- lost wages
- Income that a plaintiff in a lawsuit would have received but for the actions of the defendant, and for which the defendant is therefore liable
- lost wax
- A method of casting a sculpture in which a model of the sculpture is made from wax; the model is used to make a mould; when the mould has set, the wax is made to melt and is poured away, leaving the mould ready to be used to cast the sculpture
- lost weekend
- A period of several days in which one indulges in activities such as binge drinking, drug-taking and sex
- lost with all hands
- destroyed or sunk, while all passengers and crew died
- lost cause
- (deyim) Someone or something that has no chance of succeeding:
I used to try to get him to do some exercise but then decided he was a lost cause.
- Lost Generation
- Group of U.S. writers who came of age during World War I and established their reputations in the 1920s; more broadly, the entire post-World War I American generation. The term was coined by Gertrude Stein in a remark to Ernest Hemingway. The writers considered themselves "lost" because their inherited values could not operate in the postwar world and they felt spiritually alienated from a country they considered hopelessly provincial and emotionally barren. The term embraces Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, E.E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, and Hart Crane, among others
- Lost River Range
- A chain of mountains in east-central Idaho rising to 3,861.9 m (12,662 ft) at Borah Peak, the highest elevation in the state
- lost a leg
- leg was amputated
- lost an arm
- arm was amputated
- lost an eye
- lost the use of an eye, went blind in one eye
- lost and found
- Lost and found things are things which someone has lost and which someone else has found. the shelf where they stored lost-and-found articles. the local paper's lost-and-found column
- lost and found
- place where lost items are kept until someone claims them
- lost and found
- Lost and found is the place where lost property is kept
- lost battle
- struggle in which there is no chance of gaining victory
- lost blood
- bled, suffered from severe bleeding (from a cut, hemorrhage, etc.)
- lost case
- hopeless situation, hopeless person
- lost cause
- a defeated cause or a cause for which defeat is inevitable
- lost cause
- {i} cause that cannot succeed
- lost cause
- If you refer to something or someone as a lost cause, you mean that people's attempts to change or influence them have no chance of succeeding. They do not want to expend energy in what, to them, is a lost cause
- lost chain
- malfunction in which it is recorded that a certain disk area is occupied when it is not actually being used by any file
- lost cluster
- malfunction in which a small segment of a disk is not linked to any file
- lost color
- faded, became lighter in color
- lost consciousness
- lost use of his senses
- lost control
- no longer had control, lost command over (i.e. one's feelings, a situation, etc.)
- lost control of the car
- lost control of the steering wheel, crashed
- lost face
- degraded oneself, fell from grace, became disliked
- lost face with
- lost the respect of
- lost generation
- generation which has lost its direction, generation without goals or aspirations
- lost heart
- despaired, lost hope
- lost her virginity
- had sexual intercourse for the first time
- lost his balance
- was no longer in balance, stumbled, slipped
- lost his eyesight
- became blind
- lost his hair
- went bald
- lost his head
- lost track of his thoughts and ideas
- lost his job
- was fired, was dismissed from his job
- lost his memory
- was unable to remember
- lost his mind
- went mad, went nuts, went crazy, became insane
- lost his nerve
- lost his courage, lost his confidence
- lost his patience
- lost his tolerance, his patience lapsed
- lost his right
- lost his privilege, had his right taken from him, was no longer entitled
- lost his sanity
- went crazy, became insane
- lost his senses
- lost his self control, lost the ability to think rationally
- lost his shirt
- lost everything he owned
- lost his teeth
- his teeth fell out of his mouth
- lost his temper
- became angry, lost his self control
- lost his tongue
- was speechless, couldn't talk, fell silent
- lost his way
- went astray, got lost, took a wrong turn
- lost hope
- had no hope left, his expectations were destroyed
- lost in thought
- preoccupied, meditating, deeply engrossed in thought
- lost interest
- was no longer interested, grew tired of, got sick of
- lost its meaning
- no longer meaningful
- lost labor
- wasted effort, work that was done but did not bring results
- lost property
- Lost property is a place where lost property is kept. I was enquiring in Lost Property at Derby
- lost property
- Lost property consists of things that people have lost or accidentally left in a public place, for example on a train or in a school. Lost property should be handed to the driver
- lost property
- something that has been lost; (British) lost and found, place where lost items are kept until someone claims them
- lost property restoration law
- law which rules on lost and found items
- lost sales analysis
- (Ticaret) The function of classifying the reasons why orders or quotes were cancelled before delivery could take place, which may include pricing, shipment date, program change, or other issues
- lost sleep over
- worried over, didn't sleep well due to worrying
- lost soul
- pitiful person, misguided person
- lost soul
- If you call someone a lost soul, you mean that they seem unhappy, and unable to fit in with any particular group of people in society. They just clung to each other like two lost souls
- lost the ball
- did not succeed in controlling the ball
- lost the battle
- did not win the battle, lost the fight, was defeated
- lost the case
- lost a court case
- lost the championship
- did not win first place
- lost time
- The time during a given phase in which traffic could be discharging through the intersection, but is not This is the period during the green interval and change intervals that is not used by discharging traffic
- lost time
- Time planned for production operations that did not occur due to unscheduled problems such as machine downtime, material or personnel availability, or other situations
- lost time
- time spent by members, away from their regular job, on union business
- lost tribes
- the ten Tribes of Israel that were deported into captivity in Assyria around 720 BC (leaving only the tribes of Judah and Benjamin)
- lost tribes
- tribes of Israel that disappeared, tribes of Israel whose whereabouts and history is unknown, 10 Jewish tribes taken into captivity in 722 BC and never returned
- lost weight
- decreased in weight, got thinner, became slimmer
- lost-and-found
- repository in a public building where lost articles can be kept until their owners reclaim them
- lost-and-found
- a place where things that are lost are kept until someone comes to claim them British Equivalent: lost property
- lost-wax casting
- Traditional method of producing molds for metal sculpture and other castings. It requires a positive, a core made of refractory material and an outer layer of wax. The positive can be produced either by direct modeling in wax over a prepared core (direct lost-wax casting), or by casting in a piece mold or flexible mold taken from a master cast. The wax positive is invested with a mold made of refractory materials and heated to melt the wax, leaving a narrow cavity between the core and the investment. Molten metal is poured into this cavity. When the metal has solidified, the investment and core are broken away. See also investment casting
- long lost
- Alternative spelling of long-lost. (Something missing for a protracted length of time)
My long-lost brother showed up, borrowed money and vanished again.
- long-lost
- Having been missing or unknown for a protracted period of time
My long-lost brother showed up, borrowed money and vanished again.
- Love's Labour's Lost
- a humorous play by William Shakespeare in which a king and three of his friends promise to study and not become involved with women. However, they meet a princess and her friends, and fall in love with them, so that they are unable to do what they intended
- long lost friend
- friend that one has not seen for a long time
- long-lost
- You use long-lost to describe someone or something that you have not seen for a long time. finding a long-lost sixth century manuscript. lost or not seen for a long time
- I lost my backpack
- Indicates that the speaker has lost his or her backpack
- I lost my bag
- Indicates that the speaker has lost his or her handbag
- I lost my bag
- Indicates that the speaker has lost his or her backpack
- I lost my glasses
- Indicates that the speaker has lost his or her glasses
- I lost my handbag
- Indicates that the speaker has lost his or her handbag
- I lost my keys
- Indicates that the speaker has lost his or her keys
- I lost my wallet
- Indicates that the speaker has lost his or her wallet
- I'm lost
- Indicates that the speaker is unable to find his or her way
- I've lost my keys
- Indicates that the speaker has lost his or her keys
- better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all
- Having experience of love, even if it ended, is better than having no experience of love
- better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all
- Love is worthwhile despite the pain involved in separation
- get lost
- To lose one's way
I got lost in his reasoning.
- get lost
- Used to tell somebody to go away or leave one alone
- get lost
- To be absent, to seem to be absent
The violins 'get lost with the rest of the music.
- lose
- Of a clock, to run slower than expected
It's already 5:30? My watch must have lost a few minutes.
- lose
- To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability due to unfortunate or unknown circumstances, events or reasons
She lost her position when the company was taken over.
- lose
- To fail to be the winner
Did you win this time? - No, I lost again.
- lose
- To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate
When we get into the building, please lose the hat.
- lose
- To have (an organ) removed from one's body, especially by accident
He lost his spleen in a car wreck.
- no love lost
- dislike, animosity
There was no love lost between the two opponents.
- one who hesitates is lost
- A person who spends too much time contemplating what to do may miss a valuable but fleeting opportunity
- lose
- {v} to suffer loss, fail, miss, let slip, forfeit, bewilder
- no love lost
- Bad feeling; ill will. "Bob and Dick both wanted to be elected captain of the team, and there was no love lost between them.", "There was no love lost between the sales and the accounting departments."
- you lost me
- (deyim) "You lost me" means that you do not understand what the speaker is saying. It's usually used when someone is explaining something very complicated and the listener gets confused
- lose
- If you lose a contest, a fight, or an argument, you do not succeed because someone does better than you and defeats you. A C Milan lost the Italian Cup Final The government lost the argument over the pace of reform No one likes to be on the losing side
- lose
- To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to and; to go astray from; as, to lose one's way
- lose
- miss from one's possessions; lose sight of; "I've lost my glasses again!"
- lose
- If someone loses it, they become extremely angry or upset. I completely lost it. I went mad, berserk
- lose
- suffer the loss of a person through death or removal; "She lost her husband in the war"; "The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her"
- lose
- To be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer
- lose
- To have (a relative or friend) die
- lose
- vi [not to win] kalah 2 vt [to put something somewhere and not know where it is] menghilangkan (hilang)
- lose
- fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense; "She lost her purse when she left it unattended on her seat"
- lose
- If you lose something, you do not know where it is, for example because you have forgotten where you put it. I lost my keys I had to go back for my checkup; they'd lost my X-rays
- lose
- To shed (weight); to reduce
- lose
- retreat
- lose
- If you lose blood or fluid from your body, it leaves your body so that you have less of it. During fever a large quantity of fluid is lost in perspiration
- lose
- be set at a disadvantage; "This author really suffers in translation"
- lose
- Not to employ; to employ ineffectually; to throw away; to waste; to squander; as, to lose a day; to lose the benefits of instruction
- lose
- To cause to part with; to deprive of
- lose
- If a business loses money, it earns less money than it spends, and is therefore in debt. His shops stand to lose millions of pounds
- lose
- To ruin; to destroy; as destroy; as, the ship was lost on the ledge
- lose
- If you lose a close relative or friend, they die. My Grandma lost her brother in the war
- lose
- To cease to have; to possess no longer; to suffer diminution of; as, to lose one's relish for anything; to lose one's health
- lose
- misplace or fail, as in: I don't care if I win or lose, I just enjoy playing the game
- lose
- If you lose a part of your body, it is cut off in an operation or in an accident. He lost a foot when he was struck by a train
- lose
- as the result of any kind of contest
- lose
- If you lose weight, you become less heavy, and usually look thinner. I have lost a lot of weight Martha was able to lose 25 pounds
- lose
- If someone loses their life, they die. the ferry disaster in 1987, in which 192 people lost their lives Hundreds of lives were lost in fighting
- lose
- allow to go out of sight; "The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light"
- lose
- To fail to win (a game, competition, trial, etc). Often followed by out
- lose
- to lose your balance: see balance to lose the battle but win the war: see battle to lose contact: see contact to lose your cool: see cool to lose face: see face to lose your grip: see grip to lose your head: see head to lose heart: see heart to lose your mind: see mind to lose your nerve: see nerve to lose the plot: see plot to lose sight of: see sight to lose your temper: see temper to lose touch: see touch to lose track of: see track
- lose
- If someone or something loses heat, their temperature becomes lower. Babies lose heat much faster than adults
- lose
- To suffer loss, disadvantage, or defeat; to be worse off, esp
- lose
- fail to win; "We lost the battle but we won the war" suffer the loss of a person through death or removal; "She lost her husband in the war"; "The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her" allow to go out of sight; "The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light" miss from one's possessions; lose sight of; "I've lost my glasses again!" fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense; "She lost her purse when she left it unattended on her seat" fail to get or obtain; "I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad" fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit; "I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!"; "The company turned a loss after the first year
- lose
- If you lose yourself in something or if you are lost in it, you give a lot of attention to it and do not think about anything else. Michael held on to her arm, losing himself in the music He was lost in the contemplation of the landscape. = absorb
- lose
- To cause (something) to cease to be in ones possession or capability due to unfortunate or unknown circumstances, events or reasons
- lose
- to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg by amputation; to lose men in battle
- lose
- place (something) where one cannot find it again; "I misplaced my eyeglasses"
- lose
- To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc
- lose
- If you lose an opportunity, you do not take advantage of it. If you don't do it soon you're going to lose the opportunity They did not lose the opportunity to say what they thought of events. a lost opportunity
- lose
- If you lose an ability, you stop having that ability because of something such as an accident. They lost their ability to hear He had lost the use of his legs
- lose
- Term used by parent when a child loses a portion of their paycheck for not doing what was to be done cheerfully and happily Term that is used when a child loses money from paycheck for each individual item not done according to parent's expectations
- lose
- To prevent from gaining or obtaining
- lose
- If you lose time, something slows you down so that you do not make as much progress as you hoped. They claim that police lost valuable time in the early part of the investigation Six hours were lost in all
- lose
- [MIT] vi 1 To fail A program loses when it encounters an exceptional condition or fails to work in the expected manner 2 To be exceptionally unesthetic or crocky 3 Of people, to be obnoxious or unusually stupid (as opposed to ignorant) See also {deserves to lose} 4 n Refers to something that is {losing}, especially in the phrases "That's a lose!" and "What a lose!"
- lose
- fail to get or obtain; "I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad"
- lose
- {f} fail to keep possession of; mislay, misplace; be deprived of; be defeated, fail; be bereaved; suffer a loss; waste; miss; go in the wrong direction; become less effective or valuable, diminish
- lose
- If something loses you a contest or loses you something that you had, it causes you to fail or to no longer have what you had. My own stupidity lost me the match His economic mismanagement has lost him the support of the general public. see also lost
- lose
- If things are lost, they are destroyed in a disaster. the famous Nankin pottery that was lost in a shipwreck off the coast of China
- lose
- To be deprived of the view of; to cease to see or know the whereabouts of; as, he lost his companion in the crowd
- lose
- fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit; "I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!"; "The company turned a loss after the first year
- lose
- to be less or have less -- "How many kilograms did Bambee lose " (183)
- lose
- fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind; "I missed that remark"; "She missed his point"; "We lost part of what he said"
- lose
- To fail to obtain or enjoy; to fail to gain or win; hence, to fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss; as, I lost a part of what he said
- lose
- You say that you lose something when you no longer have it because it has been taken away from you or destroyed. I lost my job when the company moved to another state She was terrified they'd lose their home
- lose
- If someone loses a quality, characteristic, attitude, or belief, they no longer have it. He lost all sense of reason He had lost his desire to live