📒 unable to find your way; not knowing where you are
- We always get lost in London.
- We're completely lost.
- We got lost in the woods.
📒 that cannot be found or brought back
- I'm still looking for that lost file.
- a lost cat/dog/pet
- Your invitation must have got lost in the post.
📒 that cannot be obtained; that cannot be found or created again
- Piracy is costing film studios millions in lost revenues.
- The strike cost them thousands of pounds in lost business.
- lost sales/profits/earnings
📒 unable to deal successfully with a particular situation
- I felt so lost after my mother died.
- lost without somebody/something We would be lost without your help.
- He's a lost soul (= a person who does not seem to know what to do, and seems unhappy).
📒 unable to understand something because it is too complicated
- They spoke so quickly I just got lost.
- Hang on a minute—I'm lost.
- I was a little lost at first but quickly caught on to what was happening in this elaborate series.
📒 there is still some hope of making a bad situation better
- All is not lost—we still haven’t tried the banks for a loan.
📒 to be so surprised, confused, etc. that you do not know what to say
📒 to be giving all your attention to something so that you do not notice what is happening around you
📒 to be not understood or noticed by somebody
- His jokes were completely lost on most of the students.
📒 to be giving all your attention to something so that you do not notice what is happening around you
- When he’s listening to music he’s lost to the world.
📒 a rude way of telling somebody to go away, or of refusing something
- Tell him to get lost.
- ‘Lend us the car, won’t you?’ ‘Get lost!’
📒 to stop expecting to find somebody alive
📒 to do something quickly or very often because you wish you had started doing it sooner
- I’ll have to work hard now to make up for lost time.
📒 they do not like each other
- There's no love lost between her and her in-laws.