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Meaning of lost

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  lost
      adj 1: no longer in your possession or control; unable to be
             found or recovered; "a lost child"; "lost friends"; "his
             lost book"; "lost opportunities" [ant: {found}]
      2: 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" [syn: {confused}, {disoriented},
         {lost}]
      3: spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed; "lost souls";
         "a lost generation"; "a lost ship"; "the lost platoon" [ant:
         {saved}]
      4: not gained or won; "a lost battle"; "a lost prize" [ant:
         {won}]
      5: incapable of being recovered or regained; "his lost honor"
      6: not caught with the senses or the mind; "words lost in the
         din" [syn: {lost}, {missed}]
      7: 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" [syn: {bemused},
         {deep in thought(p)}, {lost(p)}, {preoccupied}]
      8: 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" [syn: {baffled},
         {befuddled}, {bemused}, {bewildered}, {confounded},
         {confused}, {lost}, {mazed}, {mixed-up}, {at sea}]
      9: unable to function; without help [syn: {helpless}, {lost}]
      n 1: people who are destined to die soon; "the agony of the
           doomed was in his voice" [syn: {doomed}, {lost}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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