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lost

adj. no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered; "a lost child"; "lost friends"; "his lost book"; "lost opportunities"

lost

adj. spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed; "lost souls"; "a lost generation"; "a lost ship"; "the lost platoon"

lost

adj. not gained or won; "a lost battle"; "a lost prize"

lost

adj. incapable of being recovered or regained; "his lost honor"

helpless

adj. unable to function; without help

confused, disoriented

adj. 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"

gone, kaput, finished, done for

adj. destroyed or killed; "we are gone geese"

unreformable, irredeemable, irreclaimable, unredeemable

adj. insusceptible of reform; "vicious irreclaimable boys"; "irredeemable sinners"

irrevocable, irrevokable

adj. incapable of being retracted or revoked; "firm and irrevocable is my doom"- Shakespeare

at sea, confused, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, mazed, mixed-up

adj. 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"

perplexed

adj. full or difficulty or confusion or bewilderment; "perplexed language"; "perplexed state of the world"

misused

adj. used incorrectly or carelessly or for an improper purpose; "misused words are often laughable but one weeps for misused talents"

wasted, squandered

adj. not used to good advantage; "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort"

lost

adj. spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed; "lost souls"; "a lost generation"; "a lost ship"; "the lost platoon"

cursed, curst

adj. deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier; "villagers shun the area believing it to be cursed"; "cursed with four daughter"; "not a cursed drop"; "his cursed stupidity"; "I'll be cursed if I can see your reasoning"

lost

adj. no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered; "a lost child"; "lost friends"; "his lost book"; "lost opportunities"

unregenerate, unregenerated

adj. not reformed morally or spiritually; "unregenerate human nature"; "unregenerate conservatism"

irretrievable, unretrievable

adj. impossible to recover or recoup or overcome; "an irretrievable loss"; "irretrievable errors in judgment"

abject, resigned, unhopeful

adj. showing utter resignation or hopelessness; "abject surrender"

black, dim, bleak

adj. offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things"

depressed, despairing, despondent, heartsick

adj. without or almost without hope; "despondent about his failure"; "too heartsick to fight back"

desperate, forlorn

adj. "a hopeless attempt"

futureless

adj. having no prospect or hope of a future

gloomy, pessimistic

adj. characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"

incurable

adj. "a hopeless case"

insoluble

adj. without hope of solution; "an insoluble problem"

alienated, anomic, disoriented

adj. socially disoriented; "anomic loners musing over their fate"; "we live in an age of rootless alienated people"

annihilated, exterminated, wiped out

adj. destroyed completely

desolate, wasted, blasted, desolated, devastated, ravaged, ruined

adj. "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape"

blighted, spoilt

adj. affected by blight--anything that mars or events growth or prosperity; "a blighted rose"; "blighted urban districts"

obliterate, obliterated, blotted out

adj. reduced to nothingness

demolished, dismantled, razed

adj. torn down and broken up

raped, ravaged, despoiled, pillaged, sacked

adj. having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence; "the raped countryside"

extinguished

adj. of a conditioned response; caused to die out because of the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement

wiped out, ruined, impoverished

adj. destroyed financially; "the broken fortunes of the family"

totaled, wrecked, totalled

adj. used of automobiles; completely demolished; "the insurance adjuster declared the automobile totaled"

war-torn, war-worn

adj. laid waste by war

found

adj. come upon unexpectedly or after searching; "found art"; "the lost-and-found department"

self-assured, self-confident

adj. showing poise and confidence in your own worth; "hardly more than a boy but firm-knit and self-confident"

saved

adj. rescued; especially from the power and consequences of sin; "a saved soul"

won

adj. not subject to defeat; "with that move it's a won game"

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