lost

lost is a 4-letter English word with 18 senses as transitive verb, noun, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Parted with unwillingly or unintentionally; not to be found; missing; as, a lost book or sheep. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 5 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. Parted with unwillingly or unintentionally; not to be found; missing; as, a lost book or sheep.
2. transitive verb. Parted with; no longer held or possessed; as, a lost limb; lost honor.
3. transitive verb. Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered; as, a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit.
4. transitive verb. Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way; bewildered; perplexed; as, a child lost in the woods; a stranger lost in London.
5. transitive verb. 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.
6. transitive verb. Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible; as, lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor.
7. transitive verb. Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible; as, an island lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd.
8. transitive verb. Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as to be insensible of external things; as, to be lost in thought.
9. noun. people who are destined to die soon

   "the agony of the doomed was in his voice"

   Synonyms: doomed

10. adjective. not caught with the senses or the mind

    "words lost in the din"

    Synonyms: missed

11. adjective. unable to function; without help

    Synonyms: helpless

12. adjective. no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered

    "a lost child"

    "lost friends"

13. adjective. spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed

    "lost souls"

    "a lost generation"

14. adjective. not gained or won

    "a lost battle"

    "a lost prize"

15. adjective. 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"

    Synonyms: confused, disoriented

16. adjective. perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment

    "obviously bemused by his questions"

    "bewildered and confused"

    Synonyms: baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, mazed

17. adjective. incapable of being recovered or regained

    "his lost honor"

18. adjective. deeply absorbed in thought

    "as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class"

    "lost in thought"

    Synonyms: bemused, preoccupied

Synonyms

doomed, missed, helpless, confused, disoriented, baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, mazed, preoccupied

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in lost:

lots, slot

Common word forms

lostness

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