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What is the adjective for lost?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb lose which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

lost
  1. Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way.
  2. In an unknown location; unable to be found.
  3. Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible.
  4. Parted with; no longer held or possessed.
  5. Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered.
  6. Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope.
  7. Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible.
  8. Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as not to notice external things.
  9. Synonyms:
      10. missing, misplaced, absent, mislaid, wayward, disappeared, forgotten, vanished, out-of-place, strayed, gone, gone astray, gone missing, not present, nowhere to be found, unaccounted for, hidden, invisible, irrecoverable, obscured, wandering, AWOL, cast away, fallen between cracks, out the window, long-lost, vagrant, irretrievable, abandoned, stray, astray, undiscoverable, undetectable, unlocatable, disarranged, obliterated, unaccounted-for, homeless, not able to be located, unfindable, unclaimed, roaming, sacrificed, given up, away, withdrawn, truant, out, off, unavailable … more
  10. Examples:
      11. “I searched high and low and for my lost cell phone before my mother found it in the laundry.”
      “They decided to explore the deep jungle and ended up becoming lost.”
      “He realized that it was a lost opportunity at securing his dream job, and he was inconsolable as a result.”
lossy
  1. (telecommunications) Of a communication channel, subject to loss of signal strength.
  2. (power systems) Of an electricity transmission line, subject to various forms of power loss.
  3. (data) Reducing the amount of information in data.
  4. Examples:
      5. “In a lossy transmission line model, the resistance, capacitance and inductance are distributed over the line length.”
      “Distortion is a numerical measure of the difference between the original image and its reproduction, after lossy compression.”
      “The band is wound with a stepper motor, changing the electrical length of the antenna, without lossy traps, loading coils etc.”
lossless
  1. free from loss, especially not losing electrical energy or force
  2. (information theory) Not losing information.
  3. Examples:
      4. “Since the line is lossless, the SWR would be the same at all points on the line.”
      “One way to mitigate the packet loss problem is through lossless data compression.”
      “The added bonus of lossless audio compression is a boon for people who have good speakers and good ears.”
lossful
  1. (archaic) Causing loss or damage; harmful.
  2. (computing) Lossy; involving loss of information.
  3. Examples:
      4. “Thresholding and neighborhood definition are further lossful transformations which make details of the original application data virtually unrecoverable.”
losingest
  1. (US, sports) The most losing; who has lost most games, votes, etc.
  2. Examples:
      3. “[Schroeder to Charlie Brown:] Do you realize that we have the losingest team in the history of baseball?”
      “It's not only the result of rooting for the losingest team in the major leagues or the resentment generated by last year's unfulfilled promises.”
      “The nine-year-old gelding who has gained notoriety as the losingest Thoroughbred in history, is not really that bad.”
loserly
  1. (derogatory) In a manner behoving a loser.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. pathetic
  3. Examples:
      4. “He then began to mope about the house in a loserly fashion.”
lossmaking
  1. That makes a loss; unprofitable.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. unprofitable, impracticable, inefficient, uneconomic, unfruitful, not viable, running at a loss
  3. Examples:
      4. “So why should the taxpayer have to fund a lossmaking post office that most of the local residents have stopped using?”
      “The French authorities have confirmed that the operations that will be reduced in connection with the restructuring plan were not lossmaking.”
      “Between 2002 and 2003 profitability improved, but the Community industry still remained lossmaking.”
loserish
  1. (informal) Like a loser (contemptible person or habitual failure).
  2. Examples:
      3. “My friends might be insulted and I'd feel loserish and left out and otherwise controlled by my diet.”
losing
  1. That loses or lose, or has or have lost.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. failed, unsuccessful, failing, defeated, doomed, falling, ruined, undone, disastrous, botched, abortive, futile, miscarried, wrecked, ended, broken, unproductive, fruitless, ineffective, bungled, ineffectual, useless, foiled, worthless, thwarted, spoilt, spoiled, messed up, vain, pointless, unavailing, unprofitable, hollow, inefficacious, bootless, valueless, hopeless, profitless, lost, trifling, impractical, wasted, in vain, to no effect … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “It's incredible that your opponent would stoop to such low gutter tactics in a last-minute effort and desperate attempt to salvage a losing campaign.”
      “Degroat tried swinging his massive arm from side to side in a losing attempt at keeping the owls at bay.”
loserless
  1. Without a loser or losers.
losable
  1. that can be lost
  2. Examples:
      3. “As with every Championship game this season, it is as easily winnable as it is losable.”
      “What the loss to the Bruins might have most reminded the Beavers of is that while they can feel any game is winnable, it's also losable.”
      “It is early, and almost no matter what, the election will be a losable one for Republicans.”
loster
  1. (nonstandard) comparative form of lost: more lost
  2. Synonyms:
      3. absenter, more misplaced, more wayward, more forgotten, more hidden, more irrecoverable, more disoriented, more adrift, more confused, more wasted, more neglected, more blew, older, ancienter, later, antiquer, deader, more past, more antiquated, more archaic, more dated, more old-fashioned, more previous, more defunct, more historical, more obsolete, more old-time, more outdated, more redundant, more oldfangled, more outmoded, more out-of-date, more outworn, more unremembered, more ruined, more annihilated, more obliterated, more wrecked, more crushed, more devastated, more extinguished, more finished, more lapsed, bleaker, forlorner, hollower, uselesser … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Turkish warriors wore helmets whose design was based on the armour plating of the loster.”
      “Loster also points out that lightning strikes increase with warmer weather, a threat to modern electronics and forests parched by extreme heat.”
lostest
  1. (nonstandard) superlative form of lost: most lost
  2. Synonyms:
      3. absentest, most misplaced, most wayward, most forgotten, most hidden, most irrecoverable, most disoriented, most adrift, most confused, most wasted, most neglected, most blew, oldest, ancientest, latest, antiquest, deadest, most past, most antiquated, most archaic, most dated, most old-fashioned, most previous, most defunct, most historical, most obsolete, most old-time, most outdated, most redundant, most oldfangled, most outmoded, most out-of-date, most outworn, most unremembered, most worn-out, most ruined, most annihilated, most obliterated, most wrecked, most crushed, most devastated, most extinguished, most finished, most lapsed, bleakest, forlornest, hollowest … more
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