lost

Meanings

Verb

• Past of lose

Adjective

• Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way.
• In an unknown location; unable to be found.
• Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible.
• Parted with; no longer held or possessed.
• Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered.
• Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope.
• Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible.
• Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as not to notice external things.

Origin

• From Middle English loste, losede and Middle English lost, ilost, ilosed, from Old English losode and Old English losod, ġelosod, equivalent to lose + -t.