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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LOST, pp. [from lose.]
1. Mislaid or left in a place unknown or forgotten; that cannot be found; as a lost book.
2. Ruined; destroyed; wasted or squandered; employed to no good purpose; as lost money; lost time.
3. Forfeited; as a lost estate.
4. Not able to find the right way, or the place intended. A stranger is lost in London or Paris.
5. Bewildered; perplexed; being in a maze; as, a speaker may be lost in his argument.
6. Alienated; insensible; hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; as a profligate lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor.
7. Not perceptible to the senses; not visible; as an isle lost in fog; a person lost in a crowd.
8. Shipwrecked or foundered; sunk or destroyed; as a ship lost at sea, or on the rocks.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered; "a lost child"; "lost friends"; "his lost book"; "lost opportunities" [ant: found]
2: 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" [syn: confused, disoriented, lost]
3: spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed; "lost souls"; "a lost generation"; "a lost ship"; "the lost platoon" [ant: saved]
4: not gained or won; "a lost battle"; "a lost prize" [ant: won]
5: incapable of being recovered or regained; "his lost honor"
6: not caught with the senses or the mind; "words lost in the din" [syn: lost, missed]
7: 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" [syn: bemused, deep in thought, lost, preoccupied]
8: 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" [syn: baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at sea]
9: unable to function; without help [syn: helpless, lost] n
1: people who are destined to die soon; "the agony of the doomed was in his voice" [syn: doomed, lost]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: past participle of lose Date: 15th century 1. not made use of, won, or claimed 2. a. no longer possessed b. no longer known 3. ruined or destroyed physically or morally ; desperate 4. a. taken away or beyond reach or attainment ; denied <regions lost to the faith> b. insensible, hardened <lost to shame> 5. a. unable to find the way b. no longer visible c. lacking assurance or self-confidence ; helpless 6. rapt, absorbed <lost in reverie> 7. not appreciated or understood ; wasted <their jokes were lost on me> 8. obscured or overlooked during a process or activity <lost in translation> 9. hopelessly unattainable ; futile <a lost cause> • lostness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

past and past part. of LOSE.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lost Lost, a. [Prop. p. p. of OE. losien. See Lose, v. t.] 1. Parted with unwillingly or unintentionally; not to be found; missing; as, a lost book or sheep. 2. Parted with; no longer held or possessed; as, a lost limb; lost honor. 3. Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered; as, a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit. 5. Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way; bewildered; perplexed; as, a child lost in the woods; a stranger lost in London. 6. 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. 7. Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible; as, lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor. 8. Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible; as, an island lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd. 9. Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as to be insensible of external things; as, to be lost in thought. Lost motion (Mach.), the difference between the motion of a driver and that of a follower, due to the yielding of parts or looseness of joints.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Lost is the past tense and past participle of lose. 2. 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. ADJ: usu v-link ADJ 3. 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. ADJ 4. 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. ADJ: usu v-link ADJ 5. 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. ADJ 6. 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. ADJ 7. 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. ADJ: ADJ n 8. 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: usu v-link ADJ 9. 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... PHRASE: V inflects, PHR n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Missing, not to be found. 2. Forfeited, missed. 3. Misspent, wasted, squandered, dissipated, thrown away. 4. Bewildered, confused, perplexed, puzzled, distracted. 5. Abstracted, preoccupied, absent, absentminded, dreamy, napping. 6. Depraved, corrupt, abandoned, profligate, dissolute, reprobate, graceless, shameless, obdurate, hardened, incorrigible, irreclaimable. 7. Invisible, imperceptible. 8. Ruined, destroyed.

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, by the board, bygone, castle-building, clueless, condemned, confounded, confused, consumed, corrupt, cureless, cursed, damned, daydreaming, daydreamy, dead, defunct, departed, depleted, desperate, destroyed, devastated, discomposed, disconcerted, dismayed, disoriented, dissipated, dissolute, distracted, distrait, distraught, disturbed, doomed, down the drain, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere, embarrassed, engrossed, eroded, exhausted, expended, extinct, fallen, faraway, forfeit, forfeited, forgotten, frantic, frenzied, godless, gone, gone away, gone to waste, graceless, guessing, half-awake, helpless, hopeless, immedicable, in a fix, in a maze, in a pickle, in a reverie, in a scrape, in a stew, in the clouds, incorrigible, incurable, inoperable, irreclaimable, irrecoverable, irredeemable, irreformable, irremediable, irreparable, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, lacking, late, long-lost, lost in thought, lost to, lost to sight, lost to view, mazed, meditative, mislaid, misplaced, misremembered, missing, misspent, mooning, moonraking, museful, musing, mystified, napping, no more, nodding, nonexistent, obliterated, oblivious, obsolete, off the track, out of sight, out the window, passed, past, past and gone, past hope, past praying for, past recall, pensive, perplexed, perturbed, pipe-dreaming, preoccupied, put-out, puzzled, rapt, remediless, reprobate, ruined, run to seed, shriftless, shrunken, somewhere else, spent, squandered, stargazing, strayed, taken up, terminal, transported, turned around, unchaste, unconscious, unconverted, undone, unmitigable, unredeemable, unredeemed, unregenerate, unrelievable, unsalvable, unsalvageable, unwon, upset, used, used up, vanished, wanton, wasted, without a clue, woolgathering, worn away, wrapped in thought, wrecked