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lost
adjective as in missing, off-track
adjective as in extinct, destroyed
Strong matches
abolished, annihilated, bygone, consumed, demolished, devastated, dissipated, eradicated, exterminated, forgotten, frittered, gone, lapsed, misspent, misused, obliterated, past, perished, ruined, squandered, wrecked
Weak matches
adjective as in distracted, dreaming
Strongest matches
Strong matches
abstracted, bemused, bewildered, engrossed, entranced, musing, perplexed, preoccupied, spellbound
Weak matches
absentminded, distrait, dreamy, faraway, feeble, going in circles, ignorant, inconscient, rapt, taken in, taken up
Example Sentences
He’s a wanderer in a Bruckner forest — sometimes lost and being lost, newly in awe.
“A nice thing about going back to these songs is that I felt I’d lost some of my emotional connection to them. I realized how beautiful they really were.”
There were even some calls from unions for working hours to be shortened further, but those fizzled out as the labor movement lost ground toward the end of the 20th century.
“There needs to be special incentives to recover the confidence that was lost in Argentina.”
“Bread of Angels” is also an elegy, not just for lost loved ones but for times, places and even physical things.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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