lost

adjective

1)

her lost keys

Syn:

missing, mislaid, misplaced, vanished, disappeared, gone missing, gone astray, forgotten, nowhere to be found; absent, not present, strayed; irretrievable, unrecoverable

2)

I think we're lost

Syn:

off course, off track, disorientated, having lost one's bearings, going around in circles, adrift, at sea, astray

3)

a lost opportunity

Syn:

missed, forfeited, neglected, wasted, squandered, gone by the boards; informal down the drain

4)

lost traditions

Syn:

bygone, past, former, one-time, previous, old, olden, departed, vanished, forgotten, consigned to oblivion, extinct, dead, gone

5)

lost species and habitats

Syn:

extinct, died out, defunct, vanished, gone; destroyed, wiped out, ruined, wrecked, exterminated, eradicated

6)

a lost cause

Syn:

hopeless, beyond hope, futile, forlorn, failed, beyond remedy, beyond recovery

7)

lost souls

Syn:

damned, fallen, irredeemable, irreclaimable, irretrievable, past hope, past praying for, condemned, cursed, doomed; literary accursed

Ant:

saved

8)

lost in thought

Syn:

engrossed, absorbed, rapt, immersed, deep, intent, engaged, wrapped up