| lost cause | a defeated cause or a cause for which defeat is inevitable |
| lost-and-found | repository in a public building where lost articles can be kept until their owners reclaim them |
| won-lost record | (sports) a record of win versus losses |
| Parallel Lives | a collection of biographies of famous pairs of Greeks and Romans written by Plutarch, used by Shakespeare in writing some of his plays |
doomed
lost | people who are destined to die soon, the agony of the doomed was in his voice |
| Lost Tribes | the ten Tribes of Israel that were deported into captivity in Assyria aroundBC (leaving only the tribes of Judah and Benjamin) |
lost
missed | not caught with the senses or the mind, words lost in the din |
helpless
lost | unable to function, without help |
| lost | no longer in your possession or control, unable to be found or recovered, a lost child, lost friends, his lost book, lost opportunities |
| lost | spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed, lost souls, a lost generation, a lost ship, the lost platoon |
| lost | not gained or won, a lost battle, a lost prize |
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 |
a 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 |
| lost | incapable of being recovered or regained, his lost honor |
bemused
deep in thought(p)
lost(p)
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 |