Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
Parted with unwillingly or unintentionally; not to be found; missing; as, a lost book or sheep.
- 2transitive verb
Parted with; no longer held or possessed; as, a lost limb; lost honor.
- 3transitive verb
Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered; as, a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit.
- 4transitive verb
Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way; bewildered; perplexed; as, a child lost in the woods; a stranger lost in London.
- 5transitive 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.
- 6transitive verb
Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible; as, lost to shame; lost to all sense of honor.
- 7transitive verb
Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible; as, an island lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd.
- 8transitive verb
Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as to be insensible of external things; as, to be lost in thought.
- 9noun
people who are destined to die soon
"the agony of the doomed was in his voice"
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- 10adjective
not caught with the senses or the mind
"words lost in the din"
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- 11adjective
unable to function; without help
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- 12adjective
no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered
"a lost child"
"lost friends"
- 13adjective
spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed
"lost souls"
"a lost generation"
- 14adjective
not gained or won
"a lost battle"
"a lost prize"
- 15adjective
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
- 16adjective
perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment
"obviously bemused by his questions"
"bewildered and confused"
- 17adjective
incapable of being recovered or regained
"his lost honor"
- 18adjective
deeply absorbed in thought
"as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class"
"lost in thought"
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