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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English loste, losede (preterite) and Middle English lost, ilost, ilosed (past participle), from Old English losode (preterite) and Old English losod, ġelosod, equivalent to lose + -t.
Pronunciation
Verb
lost
- simple past and past participle of lose
Derived terms
Adjective
lost (comparative loster or more lost, superlative lostest or most lost)
- Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way.
- The children were soon lost in the forest.
- In an unknown location; unable to be found.
- Deep beneath the ocean, the Titanic was lost to the world.
- Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible.
- an island lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd
- Parted with; no longer held or possessed.
- a lost limb; lost honour
- Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered.
- a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit; no time should be lost
- Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope.
- a ship lost at sea; a woman lost to virtue; a lost soul
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:They struck me also as being of surpassing interest as representing, probably with studious accuracy, the last rites of the dead as practised among an utterly lost people, and even then I thought how envious some antiquarian friends of my own at Cambridge would be if ever I found an opportunity of describing these wonderful remains to them.
- Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible.
- lost to shame; lost to all sense of honour
- Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as not to notice external things.
- to be lost in thought
Derived terms
Translations
unable to find one's way
- Arabic: ضَائِع (ḍāʔiʕ)
- Egyptian Arabic: تايه (tāyeh)
- Hijazi Arabic: ضايِع (ḍāyiʕ), تايِه (tāyih), مَفْقود (mafgūd)
- South Levantine Arabic: ضايِع (ḍāyiʕ)
- Armenian: կորած (hy) (korac), մոլորված (molorvac)
- Asturian: perdíu
- Azerbaijani: azmış
- Brunei Malay: sasat
- Catalan: perdut (ca)
- Cherokee: ᎤᎴᎾᎯᏛ (ulenahidv)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 迷路 (zh) (mílù)
- Danish: vildfaren, faret vild
- Esperanto: perdita
- Finnish: eksynyt, eksyksissä (fi)
- French: perdu (fr)
- Galician: perdido
- German: verirrt (de), verloren (de), umher irrend, orientierungslos (de)
- Greek: χαμένος (el) m (chaménos)
- Hebrew: אבוד (he) m (a'vud), אבודה f (a'vuda)
- Hungarian: elveszett (hu)
- Icelandic: týndur (is), villtur (is)
- Indonesian: tersesat (id)
- Irish: ar strae
- Italian: perso (it)
- Khmer: វង្វេង (km) (vŭəngveing)
- Korean: 길을 잃어버리다 (gireul ireobeorida), 길을 잃다 (gireul ilta)
- Latin: (expressed by) dēsīderārī , perditus
- Malay: sesat (ms), hilang (ms)
- Maori: ngaro
- Mirandese: perdidoso
- Persian: مفقود (fa) (mafqud), گم (gom)
- Polish: zagubiony (pl)
- Portuguese: perdido (pt)
- Romanian: pierdut (ro)
- Russian: заблуди́вшийся (ru) (zabludívšijsja)
- Sicilian: pirdutu (scn)
- Spanish: perdido (es)
- Swedish: vilse (sv)
- Turkish: kayıp (tr), yitik (tr)
- Vietnamese: lạc (vi) (落)
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in an unknown location
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: կորած (hy) (korac), կորուսյալ (hy) (korusyal)
- Brunei Malay: ilang
- Bulgarian: изгу́бен (bg) (izgúben)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 被遺失/被遗失 (zh) (bèiyíshī)
- Danish: forsvundet
- Dutch: kwijt (nl)
- Esperanto: perdita
- Finnish: kadonnut (fi), kadoksissa (fi), hukassa
- French: perdu (fr)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: verschollen (de), verloren (de), verirrt (de)
- Greek: χαμένος (el) m (chaménos)
- Icelandic: týndur (is)
- Irish: caillte
- Italian: perso (it), smarrito (it)
- Latin: āmissus, (expressed by) dēsīderārī
- Maori: ngaro
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tapt (no)
- Persian: مفقود (fa) (mafqud), گم (fa) (gom)
- Polish: zagubiony (pl)
- Portuguese: perdido (pt), extraviado (pt)
- Russian: поте́рянный (ru) (potérjannyj), расте́рянный (ru) (rastérjannyj), пропа́вший (ru) (propávšij)
- Spanish: perdido (es)
- Turkish: kayıp (tr), yitik (tr)
- Vietnamese: thất lạc (vi)
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not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible
parted with; no longer held or possessed
not employed or enjoyed; thrown away
hardened beyond sensibility or recovery
occupied with, or under the influence of, something
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Anagrams
Breton
Etymology
Cognate with Welsh llost, Cornish lost, Gaulish losto-, from Proto-Celtic *lustā, from Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“to divide, split”), possibly related to Old Norse ljósta (“to strike”), Proto-Germanic *leustaną.
Pronunciation
Noun
lost m (plural lostoù)
- A tail.
- (informal) a cock, a penis.
- Ha ma lost bras 'zo bet troc'het
- And my big penis was cut off (from a Breton bawdy song)
Cornish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *lustā, from Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“to divide, split”), possibly related to Old Norse ljósta (“to strike”), Proto-Germanic *leustaną. Cognate with Welsh llost, Breton lost, Gaulish losto-.
Pronunciation
Noun
lost m
- A tail.
- (informal) a cock, a penis.
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
lost
- inflection of lossen:
- second/third-person singular present indicative
- (archaic) plural imperative
Adjective
lost
- superlative degree of los
Anagrams
German
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Verb
lost
- inflection of losen:
- second/third-person singular present
- second-person plural present
- plural imperative
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English lost.
Pronunciation
Adjective
lost (strong nominative masculine singular loster, not comparable)
- (slang) clueless, confused; lost; vain
Further reading
- “lost” in Duden online
- “lost” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Icelandic
Noun
lost n (genitive singular losts, nominative plural lost)
- shock
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading