word-vault/dist/data/cards/lo/lost.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "lost",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "unable to find your way; not knowing where you are",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We always **get lost** in London."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We're **completely lost**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We got lost in the woods."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was tired, hungry and hopelessly lost."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "get"],
                "adverb": ["completely", "hopelessly"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "that cannot be found or brought back",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I'm still looking for that lost file."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a lost cat/dog/pet"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Your invitation must have **got lost** in the post."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Report all instances of **lost or stolen** cards immediately."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Along with flight delays, lost luggage is the most common cause for passenger complaint."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Without a form of backup, this data would be **lost forever**."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "that cannot be obtained; that cannot be found or created again",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Piracy is costing film studios millions in **lost revenues**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The strike cost them thousands of pounds in **lost business**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "lost sales/profits/earnings"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's trying to recapture her **lost youth**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a poignant and bittersweet tale of lost love"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He regretted the **lost** *(= wasted)* **opportunity** to apologize to her."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the lost art of letter-writing"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "unable to deal successfully with a particular situation",
            "sensetop": "lost without somebody/something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I **felt** so **lost** after my mother died."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We would be lost without your help.",
                    "contextForm": "lost without somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's a **lost soul** *(= a person who does not seem to know what to do, and seems unhappy)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I felt lost without my phone."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She looked rather lost and lonely, standing in a corner by herself."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Difficulty and failure"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
                "adverb": ["completely", "totally", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "unable to understand something because it is too complicated",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They spoke so quickly I just got lost."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Hang on a minute—I'm lost."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was a little lost at first but quickly caught on to what was happening in this elaborate series."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
                "adverb": ["completely", "totally", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "there is still some hope of making a bad situation better",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "All is not lost—we still haven’t tried the banks for a loan."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be so surprised, confused, etc. that you do not know what to say",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Feelings"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be giving all your attention to something so that you do not notice what is happening around you",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to be lost in thought"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be not understood or noticed by somebody",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "His jokes were completely lost on most of the students."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be giving all your attention to something so that you do not notice what is happening around you",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "When he’s listening to music he’s lost to the world."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a rude way of telling somebody to go away, or of refusing something",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Tell him to get lost."
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘Lend us the car, won’t you?’ ‘Get lost!’"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to stop expecting to find somebody alive",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to do something quickly or very often because you wish you had started doing it sooner",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I’ll have to work hard now to make up for lost time."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "they do not like each other",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There's no love lost between her and her in-laws."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/lɒst/",
                "audio": "lo/lost/lost__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/lɔːst/",
                "audio": "lo/lost/lost__us_6.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}