1. Not knowing where one is, not being able to find one's route
   "We missed a turning, now we are lost"
    
2. Having lost your bearings; confused as to time, place or personal identity
   "I frequently find myself lost when I come up out of the subway";
   - confused, disoriented
    
3. No longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered
   "his lost book"; "lost opportunities"; "a lost child"; "lost friends"
    
4. Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment
   "she felt lost on the first day of school";
   - baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, mazed, mixed-up, at sea
    
5. Deeply absorbed in thought
   "lost in thought";
   - bemused, preoccupied
    
6. Spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed
   "a lost ship"; "the lost platoon"; "lost souls"; "a lost generation"
    
7. Not gained or won
   "a lost battle"; "a lost prize"
    
8. Cannot be recovered or regained
   "his lost honour"
    
9. Not caught with the senses or the mind
   "words lost in the din";
   - missed
    
10. Unable to function without help
    "He felt lost without his smartphone";
    - helpless

1. People who are destined to die soon
   "the agony of the lost was in his voice";
   - doomed

1. 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"; "I've lost my glasses again!"
    
2. Fail to win
   "We lost the battle but we won the war"
    
3. 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"
    
4. Fail to get or obtain
   "I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad"
    
5. Allow to go out of sight or mind
   "The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light"; "the lost tribe"; "lose the crowds by climbing a mountain"
    
6. Fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit
   "I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!";
   - turn a loss
    
7. Fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
   "We lost part of what he said";
   - miss
    
8. Withdraw, as from reality
   "he lost himself in his music"
    
9. Be set at a disadvantage
   "The painting loses something in this light";
   - suffer
    
10. To remove
    "he lose his clothes";
    - shed, cast, cast off, throw off, drop

See also: confiscate, cursed, curst [archaic], damned, destroyed, doomed, forfeit, forfeited, hopeless, incomprehensible, irrecoverable, mislaid, misplaced, missing, perplexed, ruined, squandered, stray, straying, thoughtful, uncomprehensible, unoriented, unrecoverable, unredeemed, unregenerate, unregenerated, unsaved, wasted

Type of: ache, act, decline, fail, go wrong, hurt, lack, miscarry, miss, move, people, remove, seclude, sequester, sequestrate, suffer, take, take away, withdraw, worsen

Antonym: break even, find, found, gain, hold on, profit, saved, win, won

Encyclopedia: Lost, Scotland