lost
no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered
How often you will meet it
Rank 330 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 61,438 times across 175,112 chapters — 0.029% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered a lost childlost friends
- having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity also: confused, disoriented I frequently find myself disoriented when I come up out of the subwaythe anesthetic left her completely disoriented
- spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed lost soulsa lost generation
- not gained or won a lost battlea lost prize
- incapable of being recovered or regained his lost honor
- not caught with the senses or the mind also: missed words lost in the din
lost in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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Loose me not, madam, for if you forgo me, I am lost eternally.
The White Devil · John Webster · Chapter 1
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But Emancipation came and the vested interests of the white man in the Negro's body were lost.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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To-day--I don't know what to-day is, having lost all count of time--is a great day with the Russians.
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1
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Consider your elder brother, who laid down his life for his honour, or rather lost it for his disobedience to my will.
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures · Daniel Defoe · Chapter 1