lost

About 100.74 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb simple past and past participle of lose
2. adjective Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way.

   The children were soon lost in the forest.

3. adjective In an unknown location; unable to be found.

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

4. adjective Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible.

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

5. adjective Parted with; no longer held or possessed.

   a lost limb; lost honour

6. adjective Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered.

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

7. adjective Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope.

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

8. adjective Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible.

   lost to shame; lost to all sense of honour

Similar words

doomed missing preoccupied disoriented mislaid wasted misplaced destroyed mixed-up hopeless

Often followed by

in his the their its to a all and

Word family

lostness lostnesses