lost

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun people who are destined to die soon
  2. verb fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense
  3. verb fail to win

Etymology

From Middle English loste, losede (preterite) and Middle English lost, ilost, ilosed (past participle), from Old English losode (preterite) and Old English losod, ġelosod, equivalent to lose + -t.

Synonyms

doomed

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