Definition of lost

"lost" in the noun sense

1. doomed, lost

people who are destined to die soon

"the agony of the doomed was in his voice"

"lost" in the verb sense

1. lose

fail to keep or to maintain cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense

"She lost her purse when she left it unattended on her seat"

2. lose

fail to win

"We lost the battle but we won the war"

3. lose

suffer the loss of a person through death or removal

"She lost her husband in the war"

"The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her"

4. lose

miss from one's possessions lose sight of

"I've lost my glasses again!"

5. lose

allow to go out of sight or mind

"The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light"

"lose the crowds by climbing a mountain"

"the lost tribe"

6. lose, turn a loss

fail to make money in a business make a loss or fail to profit

"I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!"

"The company turned a loss after the first year"

7. lose

fail to get or obtain

"I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad"

8. miss, lose

fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind

"I missed that remark"

"She missed his point"

"We lost part of what he said"

9. lose

withdraw, as from reality

"he lost himslef in his music"

10. suffer, lose

be set at a disadvantage

"This author really suffers in translation"

"The painting loses something in this light"

"lost" in the adjective sense

1. lost

no longer in your possession or control unable to be found or recovered

"a lost child"

"lost friends"

"his lost book"

"lost opportunities"

2. confused, disoriented, lost

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"

3. lost

spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed

"lost souls"

"a lost generation"

"a lost ship"

"the lost platoon"

4. lost

not gained or won

"a lost battle"

"a lost prize"

5. lost

incapable of being recovered or regained

"his lost honor"

6. lost, missed

not caught with the senses or the mind

"words lost in the din"

7. bemused, lost, preoccupied

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"

8. baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at sea

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"

9. helpless, lost

unable to function without help

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Quotations for lost

Hid jewels are but lost. [ Quarles ]

Not lost, but gone before. [ Matthew Henry ]

Gone is gone! Lost is lost. [ G. A. Bürger ]

Praising what is lost,
Makes the remembrance dear. [ William Shakespeare ]

The dignity of truth is lost
With much protesting. [ Jonson ]

Gather roses while they bloom,
Tomorrow is yet far away.
Moments lost have no room,
In tomorrow or today. [ Gleim ]

A stone in a well is not lost. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Lip labour is but lost labour. [ Proverb ]

Too surely, every setting day,
Some lost delight we mourn. [ Keble ]

Happy love counts lost moments. [ Diderot ]

Lost time is never found again. [ Proverb ]

Here lies the body of John Mound
Lost at sea and never found. [ Epitaph ]

All that's bright must fade -
The brightest still the fleetest;
All that's sweet was made
But to be lost when sweetest. [ Moore ]

Amidst the soft variety I'm lost. [ Addison ]

All is not lost that is in peril. [ Proverb ]

His fancy lost in pleasant dreams. [ Addison ]

Land of lost gods and godlike men. [ Byron of_ _Greece ]

You have found what was never lost. [ Proverb ]

It is not lost if it comes at last. [ Proverb ]

A lost good name is never retrieved [ Gay ]

The woman that deliberates is lost. [ Addison ]

Though lost to sight, to memory dear
Thou ever wilt remain. [ George Linley: Song ]

In too much disputing truth is lost. [ French Proverb ]

What is glory? what is fame?
The echo of a long-lost name;
A breath, an idle hour's brief talk;
The shadow of an arrant naught;
A flower that blossoms for a day.
Dying next morrow;
A stream that hurries on its way.
Singing of sorrow. [ Motherwell ]

You can't be lost on a straight road. [ Proverb ]

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

A hook's well lost to catch a salmon. [ Proverb ]

Things which have been lost are safe. [ Motto ]

Those eyes that were so bright, love,
Have now a dimmer shine;
But what they've lost in light, love.
Is what they gave to mine.
And, still those orbs reflect, love,
The beams of former hours.
That ripened all my joys, love,
And tinted all my flowers. [ Hood ]

A hook is well lost to catch a salmon. [ Proverb ]

To love and not be loved is time lost. [ Italian Proverb ]

Here lies the body of Jonathan Ground,
Who was lost at sea and never found. [ Epitaph ]

Beauty blemished once, for ever's lost. [ Shakespeare ]

Learning without thought is labor lost. [ Confucius ]

O, I have lost my reputation!
I have lost the immortal part of myself
And what remains is bestial. [ Shakespeare ]

In excessive altercation truth is lost. [ Publius Syrus ]

Plenty of words when the cause is lost. [ Italian Proverb ]

Thy credit wary keep, 'tis quickly gone;
Being got by many actions, lost by one. [ Randolph ]

Land was never lost for want of an heir. [ Proverb ]

Many things are lost for want of asking. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

What though the field be lost?
All is not lost; the unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield. [ Milton ]

We're lost, but we're making great time! [ Yogi Berra ]

Nor love, nor honor, wealth, nor power,
Can give the heart a cheerful hour
When health is lost. Be timely wise;
With health all taste of pleasure flies. [ Gay ]

Better belly burst than good drink lost. [ Proverb ]

The highest power may be lost by misrule. [ Syrus ]

Farewell, remorse: all good to me is lost;
Evil, be thou my good. [ Milton ]

Love is not to be reason'd down or lost
In high ambition or a thirst of greatness. [ Addison ]

He has not lost all who has one cast left. [ Proverb ]

By misgovernment the supreme rule is lost. [ Publius Syrus ]

Farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear;
Farewell remorse; all good to me is lost;
Evil, be thou my good! [ Milton ]

He that is strucken blind cannot forget
The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won. [ William Shakespeare ]

Time spent in vice or folly is doubly lost. [ Proverb ]

The camel going to get horns lost his ears. [ Proverb ]

Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains,
And feeds her grief. [ Shelley ]

Lost in the dreary shades of dull obscurity. [ Shenstone ]

Lend me thy clarion goodness! let me try
To sound the praise of merit ere it dies.
Such as I oft have chanced to espy,
Lost in the dreary shades of dull obscurity. [ Shenstone ]

What though the mast be now blown overboard,
The cable broke, the holding anchor lost,
And half our sailors swallow'd in the flood?
Yet lives our pilot still. [ Shakespeare,Henry VI ]

All is to be feared where all is to be lost. [ Byron ]

A rascal grown rich has lost all his kindred. [ Proverb ]

Oh, love forever lost,
And with it faith gone out! what is't remains
But duty, though the path be rough and trod
By bruised and bleeding feet? [ Lewis Morris ]

He's won with a feather and lost with a straw. [ Proverb ]

It is lost labour to play a jig to an old cat. [ Proverb ]

No honestly exerted force can be utterly lost. [ Carlyle ]

All's lost that is poured into a cracked dish. [ Proverb ]

Curiosity has lost more young girls than love. [ Mme. de Puisieux ]

When love once pleads admission to our hearts,
In spite of all the virtue we can boast,
The woman that deliberates is lost. [ Addison ]

His praise is lost who waits till all commend. [ Pope ]

Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat,
Sighing through all her work, gave sign of woe
That all was lost. [ Milton ]

Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost.
Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?
Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost,
Star-eyed Intelligence. [ Mary Clemmer ]

Striking, and not making it felt, is anger lost. [ Proverb ]

When all else is lost, the future still remains. [ Bovee ]

It is lost labour to sow where there is no soil. [ Proverb ]

He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more. [ Boiste ]

We know the worth of a thing when we have lost it. [ French ]

The good you do is not lost, though you forget it. [ Proverb ]

You have lost your own stomach, and found a dog's. [ Proverb ]

An opportunity is often lost through deliberation. [ Publius Syrus ]

Friends are not so soon got or recovered, as lost. [ Proverb ]

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

It is better to be lost than to be saved all alone. [ Amiel ]

If woman lost us Eden, such as she alone restore it! [ Whittier ]

He that is won with a nut may be lost with an apple. [ Proverb ]

He that is not sensible of his loss has lost nothing. [ Proverb ]

He that loses his wife and sixpence hath lost a tester. [ Proverb ]

Let every one look to himself, and no one will be lost. [ Dutch Proverb ]

He who fears death has already lost the life be covets. [ Cato ]

Friends got without desert, will be lost without cause. [ Proverb ]

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence. [ Thomas Paine ]

The pleasure of what we enjoy, is lost by coveting more. [ Proverb ]

I have lost my life, alas! in laboriously doing nothing. [ Grotius ]

He that loses his wealth is wanted to have lost his wits. [ Proverb ]

Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune. [ Napoleon I ]

The next dreadful thing to a battle lost, is a battle won. [ Duke Of Wellington ]

Chastity, lost once, cannot be recalled; it goes only once. [ Ovid ]

Revenge is lost in agony, and wild remorse to rage succeeds. [ Byron ]

He that can be won with a feather will be lost with a straw. [ Proverb ]

In the short life of man, no time can be afforded to be lost. [ Proverb ]

Grieve not that I die young.
Is it not well to pass away ere life has lost its brightness? [ Lady Flora Hastings ]

I attend to the business of other people, having lost my own. [ Horace ]

Riches are got with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. [ Proverb ]

The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime. [ Proverb ]

Credit lost is a Venice-glass broken, which cannot be soldered. [ Proverb ]

He who does not love flowers has lost all love and fear of God. [ Ludwig Tieck ]

Frail empire of a day! That with the setting sun extinct is lost. [ Somerville ]

It is easier to preserve a friend, than to recover him when lost. [ Proverb ]

Riches are got wi' pain, kept wi' care, and tint (lost) wi' grief. [ Scotch Proverb ]

The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console us. [ Arsène Houssaye ]

How many could be made happy with the happiness lost in this world. [ Levis ]

I'd find the fellow who lost it, and, if he was poor, I'd return it. [ Yogi Berra, when asked what he would do if he found a million dollars ]

Good-will, like a good name, is got by many actions and lost by one. [ Jeffrey ]

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. [ Tennyson ]

Learning hath gained most by those books by which printers have lost. [ Fuller ]

Be secret and discreet; the fairy favors are lost when not concealed. [ Dryden ]

Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within. [ Dryden ]

He that finds something before it is lost will die before he falls ill. [ Dutch Proverb ]

He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived but lost. [ Thomas Fuller ]

O'er the trackless past somewhere lie the lost days of our tropic youth. [ Bret Harte ]

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression. [ Margaret Fuller ]

You have lost no reputation at all unless you repute yourself such a loser. [ William Shakespeare ]

Wealth lost, something lost; honour lost, much lost; courage lost, all lost. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The most completely lost of all days is the one on which we have not thought. [ De Finod ]

The most completely lost of all days is the one on which we have not laughed. [ Chamfort ]

You have lost your money; perhaps, if you had kept it, it would have lost you.

Reason! I have lost it; and, were it to be returned to me, I would fly from it! [ A. de Musset ]

Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity. [ H. W. Shaw ]

In this world of change, nought which comes stays, and nought which goes is lost. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

A lamp is lit in woman's eye, that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by. [ N. P. Willis ]

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honours are withdrawn. [ Massinger ]

It's better to love today than tomorrow. A pleasure postponed is a pleasure lost. [ A. Ricard ]

When we die, we shall find we have not lost our dreams; we have only lost our sleep. [ Richter ]

If thy daughter marry well, thou hast found a son; if not, thou hast lost a daughter. [ Quarles ]

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. [ Colton ]

By gaining the people, the kingdom is gained; by losing the people, the kingdom is lost. [ Confucius ]

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, His praise is lost who waits till all commend. [ Pope ]

It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed. [ Mackenzie ]

The spider lost her distaff, and is ever since forced to draw her thread through her tail. [ Proverb ]

Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea. [ Rivarol ]

No knowledge is lost, but perfected, and changed for much nobler, sweeter, greater knowledge. [ Baxter ]

Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost! [ Pope ]

Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and of preserving happiness. [ Horace ]

The soul of a man can by no agency, of men or of devils, be lost and ruined but by his own only. [ Carlyle ]

We know the value of a fortune when we have gained it, and that of a friend when we have lost it. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

When people laugh at their own jokes, their wit is very small beer, and is lost in its own froth. [ Spurgeon ]

Many a withering thought lies hid, not lost, in smiles that least befit those who wear them most. [ Byron ]

All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left is left no fear. [ Milton ]

I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five. [ Yogi Berra ]

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition: oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. [ William Shakespeare ]

To seek these things is lost labor: geese in an oil-pot, fat hogs among Jews, and wine in a fishingnet. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Beauty and ugliness disappear equally under the wrinkles of age: one is lost in them, the other hidden. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

There are some illusions that are like the light of the day: when lost, everything disappears with them. [ Mme. Dufresnoy ]

By the long practice of caricature I have lost the enjoyment of beauty: I never see a face but distorted. [ Hogarth to a lady who wished to learn caricature ]

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us. [ Massinger ]

A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness, gathers love. [ Basil ]

The remembrance of the good done those we have loved, is the only consolation left us when we have lost them. [ Demoustier ]

He has lost his arms and deserted the cause of virtue who is ever eager and engrossed in increasing his wealth. [ Horace ]

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. [ Bishop Hall ]

For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The future of society is in the hands of the mothers. If the world was lost through woman, she alone can save it. [ De Beaufort ]

The purer the golden vessel the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of women is sooner lost than that of men. [ Jean Paul ]

The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man. [ Richter ]

Sleep brings dreams; and dreams are often most vivid and fantastical before we have yet been wholly lost in slumber. [ Robert Montgomery Bird ]

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored. [ Seneca ]

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of Heaven. [ Johnson ]

Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost. [ Bishop Horne ]

It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed upon as when they have lost their edge. [ Swift ]

In navigation, it is the business of the master of a vessel to see that no wind be lost, misemployed, or taken from the ship. [ Lord Bacon ]

There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost. [ Beaconsfield ]

Ah! would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way, from the eye, through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost! [ Lessing ]

Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness - when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton. [ H. W. Shaw ]

When we read that the lost sheep is preferred to the rest of the flock, we are tempted to think that penitence is preferable to innocence.

A man of intellect is lost unless he unites energy of character to intellect. When we have the lantern of Diogenes we must have his staff. [ Chamfort ]

Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly and their rage is lost. [ Dryden ]

A woman who has not seen her lover for the whole day considers that day lost for her: the tenderest of men considers it only lost for love. [ Mme. de Salm ]

Scientific truth is marvellous, but moral truth is divine; and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise. [ Horace Mann ]

Many in hot pursuit have hasted to the goal of wealth, but have lost, as they ran, those apples of gold, the mind and the power to enjoy it. [ Tupper ]

We never know the true value of friends. While they live we are too sensitive of their faults: when we have lost them we only see their virtues. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]

Remembrance! celestial present, shadow of the blessings which are no longer! Thou art still a pleasure that consoles us for all those we have lost!

When women have passed thirty, the first thing they forget is their age; when they have attained forty, they have entirely lost the remembrance of it. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue. [ Horace ]

Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it, and the record is gone. Example is engraven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty. [ L'Estrange ]

The passions act as winds to propel our vessel, our reason is the pilot that steers her; without the winds she would not move, without the pilot she would be lost. [ F. Schultz ]

Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow. [ Buddha ]

He that is proud of the rustling of his silks, like a madman, laughs at the rattling of his fetters; for, indeed, clothes ought to be our remembrancers of our lost innocency. [ Thomas Fuller ]

Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him. [ Swift ]

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever. [ Dr. Johnson ]

The life of a woman is a long dissimulation. Candor, beauty, freshness, virginity, modesty - a woman has each of these but once. When lost, she must simulate them the rest of her life. [ Ritif de la Bretonne ]

The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty. [ J. G. Holland ]

It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for tomorrow. [ Johnson ]

Such a noise arose as the shroud? make at sea in a stiff tempest, as loud and to as many tunes, - hats, cloaks, doublets, I think, flew up; and had their faces been loose, this day they had been lost. [ William Shakespeare ]

The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden in her acceptance of him. She was heaven whilst he pursued her as a star - she cannot be heaven if she stoops to such a one as he. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Don Quixote is, after all, the defender of the oppressed, the champion of lost causes, and the man of noble aberrations. Woe to the centuries without Don Quixotes! Nothing remains to them but Sancho Panzas. [ A. de Gasparin ]

In the moral world nothing is lost, as in the material world nothing is annihilated. All our thoughts and all our sentiments here below, are but the beginning of sentiments and thoughts that will be finished elsewhere. [ Joubert ]

Make use of time, if thou lovest eternity; know yesterday cannot be recalled, tomorrow cannot be assured; today is only thine; Which if thou procrastinate, thou losest; which lost, is lost forever. One today is worth two tomorrows. [ Quarles ]

Negligence or Neglect? Negligence is a habit; neglect is an act. The following sentences illustrate the difference in the meaning of these words:
His negligence was the source of all his misfortunes,
By his neglect he lost the opportunity. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty. [ Lamartine ]

Human excellence, parted from God, is like a fable flower, which, according to Rabbis, Eve plucked when passing out of paradise - severed from its native root, it is only the touching memorial of a lost Eden; sad, while charming - beautiful, but dead. [ C. Stanford ]

A little neglect may breed great mischief. For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

People travel the world over to visit untouched places of natural beauty, yet modern gardens pay little heed to the simplicity and beauty of these environments... those special places we all must preserve and protect, each in his own way, before they are lost forever. [ Mary Reynolds, 2002 Gold Medal Winner of the Chelsea Flower Show, November 2001 Application Form. Dare to Be Wild movie ]

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt and support them through great actions. A cloak should be of three-pile, to keep its gloss in wear. [ Hare ]

If you lend a person any money, it becomes lost for any purpose as one's own. When you ask for it back again, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press still further either you must part with that which you have intrusted, or else you must lose that friend. [ Plautus ]

Infinity is the retirement in which perfect love and wisdom only dwell with God. In infinity and eternity the skeptic sees an abyss in which all is lost. I see in them the residence of Almighty power, in which my reason and my wishes find equally a firm support. Here, holding by the pillars of heaven, I exist - I stand fast. [ Miller ]

There is no moment like the present: not only so, but moreover, there is no moment at all, that is, no instant force and energy, but in the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and skurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence. [ Miss Edgeworth ]

A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time; but that happeneth rarely. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second; for there is a youth in thoughts as well as in ages; and yet the invention of young men is more lively than that of old, and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely. [ Bacon ]

If thy desire to raise thy fortunes encourage thy delights to the casts of fortune, be wise betimes, lest thou repent too late; what thou gettest, thou gainest by abused providence; what thou losest, thou losest by abused patience; what thou winnest is prodigally spent; what thou losest is prodigally lost; it is an evil trade that prodigality drives; and a bad voyage where the pilot is blind. [ Quarles ]

There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel, or the last light book in fashion. One might as well take a rose-draught for the plague! Light reading does not do when the heart is really heavy. I am told that Goethe, when he lost his son, took to study a science that was new to him. Ah! Goethe was a physician who knew what he was about. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

You can throw yourselves away. You can become of no use in the universe except for a warning. You can lose your souls. Oh, what a loss is that! The perversion and degradation of every high and immortal power for an eternity! And shall this be true of any one of you? Will you be lost when One has come from heaven, traveling in the greatness of His strength, and with garments dyed in blood, on purpose to guide you home - home to a Father's house - to an eternal home? [ Mark Hopkins ]

Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill, the first small fountain. Not until you have gone through the rocky gorges, and not lost the stream; not until you have gone through the meadow, and the stream has widened and deepened until fleets could ride on its bosom; not until beyond the meadow you have come to the unfathomable ocean, and poured your treasures into its depths - not until then can you know what love is. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have lost an opportunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile of possible good. To be born and not fed, is to perish. To launch a ship and neglect it is to lose it. To have a talent and bury it, is to be a wicked and slothful servant. For in the end we shall be judged, not alone by what we have done, but by what we could have done. [ Maltbie Babcock ]

It is to be hoped that, with all the modern improvements, a mode will be discovered of getting rid of bores: for it is too bad that a poor wretch can be punished for stealing your pocket handkerchief or gloves, and that no punishment can be inflicted on those who steal your time, and with it your temper and patience, as well as the bright thoughts that might have entered into your mind (like the Irishman who lost the fortune before he had got it), but were frightened away by the bore. [ Byron ]

Two things a master commits to his servant's care - the child and the child's clothes. It will be a poor excuse for the servant to say, at his master's return, Sir, here are all the child's clothes, neat and clean, but the child is lost. Much so of the account that many will give to God of their souls and bodies at the great day. Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for my soul, that is lost and cast away forever. I took little care and thought about it. [ John Flavel ]

Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gesture or quick movement inspires involuntary disrespect. One looks for a moment at a cascade; but one sits for hours, lost in thought, and gazing upon the still water of a lake. A deliberate gale, gentle manners, and a gracious tone of voice - all of which may be acquired - give a mediocre man an immense advantage over those vastly superior to him. To be bodily tranquil, to speak little, and to digest without effort are absolutely necessary to grandeur of mind or of presence, or to proper development of genius. [ Balzac ]

True hope is based on energy of character. A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope, because it knows the mutability of human affairs and how slight a circumstance may change the whole course of events. Such a spirit, too, rests upon itself, it is not confined to partial views, or to one particular object. And if at last all should be lost, it has saved itself, its own integrity and worth. Hope awakens courage, while despondency is the last of all evils, it is the abandonment of good, the giving up of the battle of life with dead nothingness. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician. [ Von Knebel (German), Translated by Mrs. Austin ]

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

lost in Scrabble®

The word lost is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 4

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters lost:

LOTS
(15)
SLOT
(15)
SLOT
(15)
LOST
(15)
LOST
(15)
LOTS
(15)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word lost

LOST
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The 138 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In lost

LOTS
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lost in Words With Friends™

The word lost is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters lost:

LOST
(27)
LOTS
(27)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word lost

LOST
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The 150 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In lost

LOST
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LOTS
(27)
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(21)
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Word Growth involving lost

Shorter words in lost

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Longer words containing lost

allosteric

anchylostomiases

anchylostomiasis

ankylostomiases

ankylostomiasis

cephalostyle

cheilostome cheilostomes

clostridia clostridial

clostridiosis

clostridium

colostomies cystocolostomies cholecystocolostomies

colostomies urethrocolostomies

colostomy cystocolostomy cholecystocolostomy

colostomy urethrocolostomy

colostral

colostrous

colostrum colostrumlike

cumulostrati

cumulostratus

cyclostoma cyclostomata

cyclostoma cyclostomatous

cyclostome cyclostomes

cyclostratigrapher cyclostratigraphers

cyclostratigraphic cyclostratigraphically

cyclostratigraphic cyclostratigraphics

cyclostratigraphist cyclostratigraphists

cyclostratigraphy

cyclostylar

cyclostyle cyclostyled

cyclostyle cyclostyles

cyclostyling

diplostephanous

dolostone dolostones

haplostele haplosteles nonhaplosteles

haplostele nonhaplostele nonhaplosteles

haplostelic

holostylic

holostyly

longlost

stylostixis

triplostichous

tylostyle tylostyles

ureteroneopyelostomies

ureteroneopyelostomy

ventriculostomies

ventriculostomy

xalostocite