LOST

adj. 1 gone, departed, vanished, strayed; missing, mislaid, misplaced, irrecoverable They found my lost dog The airline told me that my bag was lost. 2 wasted, misspent, gone by the board, squandered, down the drain, spent, exhausted, Colloq out of the window The new arrangement is resulting in a lot of time lost I watched another lost opportunity slip by. 3 confused, baffled, perplexed, puzzled, mystified, bewildered, confounded, adrift, helpless, disoriented, at sea, astray I am totally lost when it comes to high finance 4 forgotten, bygone, extinct, past, obsolete, vanished, buried Good writing needn't be a lost art 5 dead, extinct, departed, fallen, late We held a memorial service for our lost comrades 6 destroyed, demolished, devastated, ruined, wrecked, irreparable, unsalvageable, irreclaimable, irremediable After the exposé in the newspaper, his name was consigned to the limbo of lost reputations 7 damned, cursed, accursed, abandoned, corrupt, fallen, wanton, unchaste, dissolute Unrepentant sinners are lost souls 8 hopeless, distraught, distracted, desperate, frantic, frenzied He had the lost look of a cornered fugitive