lost

lost¹ [lɔst US lo:st] v

the past tense and past participle of ↑lose

lost ²

lost² W3S2 adj

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1¦(cannot find your way)¦

2¦(cannot be found)¦

3¦(wasted)¦

4 feel/be lost

5 Get lost!

6¦(not noticing)¦

7 get lost (in something)

8¦(not understand)¦

9 be lost on somebody

10 be lost for words

11¦(not existing)¦

12 lost cause

13 lost soul

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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

▪ 'Are you lost?' the driver asked.

▪ I got thoroughly lost on the way here.

▪ a lost child

2.) ¦(CANNOT BE FOUND)¦

if something is lost, you had it but cannot now find now

= ↑missing

▪ two boys searching for a lost ball

▪ The letter never arrived. It must have got lost in the post.

3.) ¦(WASTED)¦

a) lost time or opportunities have not been used in the way that would have given you the greatest advantage

▪ It'll be impossible to make up the lost time.

▪ They didn't change the voting system when they had the chance and now the opportunity has been lost.

b) lost sales/business/earnings etc

sales, business etc that you could have had but did not

▪ The strike has cost the company £2 million in lost revenue.

4.) feel/be lost

to not feel confident about what to do or how to behave

▪ It's not unusual to feel rather lost when you first start college.

▪ She's a great friend and I'd be lost without her.

5.) Get lost!

spoken used to rudely tell someone to go away or to stop annoying you

6.) ¦(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

lost in

▪ Harry just stood there, lost in thought .

▪ Amy lay on her bed, totally lost in her book.

7.) get lost (in sth)

to be forgotten or not noticed in a complicated process or in a busy time

▪ It's easy for your main points to get lost in a long speech.

8.) ¦(NOT UNDERSTAND)¦

be lost

to be completely confused by a complicated explanation

▪ 'Do you understand what I mean?' 'Not really. I'm a bit lost.'

9.) be lost on sb

if something is lost on someone, they do not understand or want to accept it

▪ The joke was completely lost on Chris.

10.) be lost for words

to be unable to say anything because you are very surprised, upset etc

▪ For once in her life, she was lost for words.

11.) ¦(NOT EXISTING)¦ [only before noun]

that no longer exists or that you no longer have

▪ the relics of a lost civilization

▪ She wept for her broken dreams and lost youth.

12.) lost cause

something that has no chance of succeeding

▪ Trying to interest my son in classical music is a lost cause.

13.) lost soul

someone who does not seem to know where they are or what to do - often used humorously

→give sb up for dead/lost etc at give up(7)

→↑long-lost

→make up for lost time at make up for(4)

→there is no love lost between sb and sb at ↑love² (10)