- lost - no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered; "a lost child"; "lost friends"; "his lost book"; "lost opportunities"
Antonyms: found, recovered
- confused, disoriented, lost - having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity; "I frequently find myself disoriented when I come up out of the subway"; "the anesthetic left her completely disoriented"
Antonyms: oriented, orientated (indirect, via unoriented)
- lost - spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed; "lost souls"; "a lost generation"; "a lost ship"; "the lost platoon"
Antonyms: saved, blessed, rescued, reclaimed, ransomed, redeemed, salvageable
- lost - not gained or won; "a lost battle"; "a lost prize"
Antonym: won
- lost - incapable of being recovered or regained; "his lost honor"
Antonym: recoverable (indirect, via unrecoverable)
- lost, missed - not caught with the senses or the mind; "words lost in the din"
Antonyms: comprehensible, comprehendible (indirect, via incomprehensible)
- bemused, deep in thought, lost, preoccupied - deeply absorbed in thought; "as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class"; "lost in thought"; "a preoccupied frown"
Antonym: thoughtless (indirect, via thoughtful)
- forgotten, lost - no longer known; irretrievable; "a forgotten art"; "a lost art"; "lost civilizations"
Antonym: recoverable (indirect, via unrecoverable)
- baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at sea - perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment; "obviously bemused by his questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and confounded philosopher"; "just a mixed-up kid"; "she felt lost on the first day of school"
Antonym: unperplexed (indirect, via perplexed)
- helpless, lost - unable to function; without help
Antonym: hopeful (indirect, via hopeless)
- doomed, lost - people who are destined to die soon; "the agony of the doomed was in his voice"
--1 is a kind of people
- lose - fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense; "She lost her purse when she left it unattended on her seat"
Antonyms: keep, hold on
Sample sentence:
They lose the money
- lose - fail to win; "We lost the battle but we won the war"
Antonyms: win
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun loser2, noun loser1, noun loser3
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s to somebody
- lose - suffer the loss of a person through death or removal; "She lost her husband in the war"; "The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her"
--3 is one way to suffer
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- misplace, mislay, lose - place (something) where one cannot find it again; "I misplaced my eyeglasses"
--4 is one way to put, set, place, pose, position, lay
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
- lose - miss from one's possessions; lose sight of; "I've lost my glasses again!"
Antonyms: find, regain
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun losings1
Somebody ----s something
- lose - allow to go out of sight; "The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light"
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- lose, turn a loss - fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit; "I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!"; "The company turned a loss after the first year"
Antonyms: profit, turn a profit, break even
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun loser3, noun losings1
They lose the money
- lose - fail to get or obtain; "I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad"
Antonyms: acquire, win, gain
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
- fall back, lose, drop off, fall behind, recede - retreat
--9 is one way to regress, retrograde, retrogress
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- miss, lose - fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind; "I missed that remark"; "She missed his point"; "We lost part of what he said"
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- suffer, lose - be set at a disadvantage; "This author really suffers in translation"
--11 is one way to worsen, decline
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
- misplace, mislay, lose - place (something) where one cannot find it again; "I misplaced my eyeglasses"