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say it: lawst
lost is an adjective and noun meaning "no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered". It carries 10 recorded senses.
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”
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”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lost come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.