lossy
lossy

lost


Definition: Meaning of, lost in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / lɒst /

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  1. the past tense and past participle of LOSE
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  1. cannot find your way if you are lost, you do not know where you are and are unable to find your way somewhere
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  2. cannot be found if something is lost, you had it but cannot now find now [=  missing]
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  3. wasted lost time or opportunities have not been used in the way that would have given you the greatest advantage
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  4. wasted lost sales/business/earnings etc sales, business etc that you could have had but did not
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  5. feel/be lost to not feel confident about what to do or how to behave
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  6. Get lost! spoken used to rudely tell someone to go away or to stop annoying you
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  7. not noticing [not before noun] thinking so hard about something, or being so interested in something, that you do not notice what is happening around you
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  8. get lost (in something) to be forgotten or not noticed in a complicated process or in a busy time
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  9. not understand be lost to be completely confused by a complicated explanation
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  10. be lost on somebody if something is lost on someone, they do not understand or want to accept it
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  11. be lost for words to be unable to say anything because you are very surprised, upset etc
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  12. not existing [only before noun] that no longer exists or that you no longer have
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  13. lost cause something that has no chance of succeeding
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  14. lost soul someone who does not seem to know where they are or what to do - often used humorously
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lost used in phrases

  • Lost Generation, the
    1. the young men who were killed in World War I, who could have been successful in art, science, literature etc
    2. all the people who became adults during or just after World War I, and who suffered great social and emotional disadvantages as a result
  • Lost Tribes (noun)
    1. leaving only the tribes of Judah and Benjamin the ten Tribes of Israel that were deported into captivity in Assyria around 720 BC
  • Love's Labour's Lost
    1. a humorous play by William SHAKESPEARE in which a king and three of his friends promise to study and not become involved with women. However, they meet a princess and her friends, and fall in love with them, so that they are unable to do what they intended.
  • Paradise Lost
    1. (1667) a long EPIC poem by John MILTON which tells the story of Adam and Eve, and why God punished them. The story is continued in a later poem called Paradise Regained .
  • get lost
    1. instruction to go away
  • long-lost (adjective)
    1. lost or not seen for a long time
  • lost cause (noun)
    1. a defeated cause or a cause for which defeat is inevitable
  • lost property (noun)
    1. things that people have lost or accidentally left in a public place, which are kept until someone collects them
    2. also Lost Property a place where these things are kept until someone comes to claim them [=  lost-and-found American English]
  • lost-and-found (noun)
    1. the lost-and-found a place where things that are lost are kept until someone comes to claim them [=  lost property British English]
  • won-lost record (noun)
    1. sport a record of win versus losses
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