- lost
- adjective1)
her lost keys
Syn:missing, mislaid, misplaced, vanished, disappeared, gone missing, gone astray, forgotten, nowhere to be found; absent, not present, strayed; irretrievable, unrecoverable2)I think we're lost
Syn:off course, off track, disorientated, having lost one's bearings, going around in circles, adrift, at sea, astray3)a lost opportunity
Syn:missed, forfeited, neglected, wasted, squandered, gone by the boards; informal down the drain4)lost traditions
Syn:bygone, past, former, one-time, previous, old, olden, departed, vanished, forgotten, consigned to oblivion, extinct, dead, gone5)lost species and habitats
Syn:extinct, died out, defunct, vanished, gone; destroyed, wiped out, ruined, wrecked, exterminated, eradicated6)a lost cause
Syn:hopeless, beyond hope, futile, forlorn, failed, beyond remedy, beyond recovery7)lost souls
Syn:damned, fallen, irredeemable, irreclaimable, irretrievable, past hope, past praying for, condemned, cursed, doomed; literary accursedAnt:saved8)lost in thought
Syn:engrossed, absorbed, rapt, immersed, deep, intent, engaged, wrapped up
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