lost
adjective/lɔːst/
Слово англійською: lost
Переклад lost українською: загублений
Детальний опис
- 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.
- I was tired, hungry and hopelessly lost.
- 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.
- Report all instances of lost or stolen cards immediately.
- Along with flight delays, lost luggage is the most common cause for passenger complaint.
- Without a form of backup, this data would be lost forever.
- [usually before noun] 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
- She's trying to recapture her lost youth.
- a poignant and bittersweet tale of lost love
- He regretted the lost (= wasted) opportunity to apologize to her.
- the lost art of letter-writing
- [not usually before noun] 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).
- [not before noun] 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.
Idioms
all is not lost
- 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.
be lost for words
- to be so surprised, confused, etc. that you do not know what to sayTopics Feelingsc1
be lost in something
- to be giving all your attention to something so that you do not notice what is happening around you
- to be lost in thought
be lost on somebody
- to be not understood or noticed by somebody
- His jokes were completely lost on most of the students.
be lost to the world
- 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.
get lost
- (informal) 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!’
give somebody up for lost
- (formal) to stop expecting to find somebody alive
make up for lost time
- 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.
there’s little/no love lost between A and B
- they do not like each other
- There's no love lost between her and her in-laws.