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Antonyms for lost

Grammar : Adj
Spell : lawst, lost
Phonetic Transcription : lɔst, lɒst


Definition of lost

Origin :
  • "defeated," c.1300; "wasted, spent in vain," c.1500; also "no longer to be found" (1520s), from past participle of lose. Lost Cause in reference to the Southern U.S. bid for independence is from the title of E.A. Pollard's history of the CSA and the rebellion (1866). Lost Generation in reference to the period 1914-18 first attested 1926 in Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises," where he credits it to Gertrude Stein.
  • adj missing, off-track
  • adj extinct, destroyed
  • adj distracted, dreaming
Example sentences :
  • They were fabled as seven sisters, and one lost her place in the sky by marrying a mortal.
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • "He will look for me, and seem bewildered, as if something were lost," replied Philothea.
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • I tell you he's alive and well, only he's lost your money and Pish's and mine and his own.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • You don't want to let him be the one to break it because you lost your money, do you?
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • But unless he did something a hundred lives perhaps might be lost.
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • Even the most sanguine now gave her up for lost, including the owners.
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • I read of it before I lost my eyes; and since my blindness I have seen it often.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • Then up the far slope he was lost at once in a host of trees.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • She was lost, for the instant, in a maze of disagreeable reflection.
  • Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
  • The ring of anxiety in Grace's voice had not been lost upon her.
  • Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower

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