LOST


Meaning of LOST in English

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

Lost is the past tense and past participle of lose .

2.

If you are ~ or if you get ~, you do not know where you are or are unable to find your way.

Barely had I set foot in the street when I realised I was ~...

I took a wrong turn and we got ~ in the mountains.

ADJ: usu v-link ADJ

3.

If something is ~, or gets ~, you cannot find it, for example because you have forgotten where you put it.

...a ~ book...

My paper got ~...

He was scrabbling for his pen, which had got ~ somewhere under the sheets of paper.

ADJ

4.

If you feel ~, you feel very uncomfortable because you are in an unfamiliar situation.

Of the funeral he remembered only the cold, the waiting, and feeling very ~...

I feel ~ and lonely in a strange town alone.

ADJ: usu v-link ADJ

5.

If you describe a person or group of people as ~, you think that they do not have a clear idea of what they want to do or achieve.

They are a ~ generation in search of an identity.

ADJ

6.

If you describe something as ~, you mean that you no longer have it or it no longer exists.

...a ~ job or promotion...

The sense of community is ~...

The riots will also mean ~ income for Los Angeles County.

ADJ

7.

You use ~ to refer to a period or state of affairs that existed in the past and no longer exists.

He seemed to pine for his ~ youth...

...the relics of a ~ civilisation.

ADJ: ADJ n

8.

If something is ~, it is not used properly and is considered wasted.

Fox is not bitter about the ~ opportunity to compete in the Games...

The advantage is ~.

ADJ: usu v-link ADJ

9.

If advice or a comment is ~ on someone, they do not understand it or they pay no attention to it.

The meaning of that was ~ on me...

PHRASE: V inflects, PHR n

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