lost

Adjective

• unable to function; without help

• 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
    

• 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
    

• not caught with the senses or the mind
  • words lost in the din
    

• incapable of being recovered or regained
  • his lost honor
    

• not gained or won
  • a lost battle
    
  • a lost prize
    

• spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed
  • lost souls
    
  • a lost generation
    
  • a lost ship
    
  • the lost platoon
    

• 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
    

• no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered
  • a lost child
    
  • lost friends
    
  • his lost book
    
  • lost opportunities
    

Noun

• people who are destined to die soon
  • the agony of the doomed was in his voice
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  helpless , bemused , deep in thought(p) , lost(p) , preoccupied , missed , confused , disoriented , doomed
• Antonyms: 
  won , saved , found