lost

• (a) no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered
  • a lost child
  • lost friends
  • his lost book
  • lost opportunities
• (s) 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
  disoriented, confused,
• (a) spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed
  • lost souls
  • a lost generation
  • a lost ship
  • the lost platoon
• (a) not gained or won
  • a lost battle
  • a lost prize
• (s) incapable of being recovered or regained
  • his lost honor
• (s) not caught with the senses or the mind
  • words lost in the din
  missed,
• (s) 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
  bemused, deep in thought, preoccupied,
• (s) 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
  at sea, baffled, bewildered, confounded, confused, mazed, mixed-up, befuddled, bemused,
• (s) unable to function; without help helpless,

Nouns

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

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Words of close approximity