lost, adj. 1. forfeited, gone, no more, by the board, out the window, down the drain, long-lost; missing, vanished, disappeared, lost to sight or view, out of sight.
2. forgotten, unrecalled, unremembered, unrecollected, unretained, out-of-sight-out-of-mind; consigned to oblivion, buried or sunk in oblivion.
3. irreclaimable, irretrievable, irrecoverable, irrevocable, irreversible, unsalvageable, past hope, hopeless, past praying for, beyond recall.
4. wasted, squandered, misspent; consumed, used up, exhausted, expended, spent.
5. astray, adrift, at sea, off the track, out of one's bearings, disoriented, going around in circles; (all as to place, direction, etc.) confused, perplexed, baffled, bewildered, confounded, puzzled, mystified, nonplussed, at a loss.
6. destroyed, ruined, wrecked; undone, done in, finished, ended, SI. eighty-sixed; obliterated, effaced, eradicated, extirpated, wiped or blotted out.
7. preoccupied, bemused, abstracted, engrossed, rapt, taken up, lost in thought; absent, far away, somewhere else, not there.
8. distraught, desperate, hopeless; distracted, wild, frenzied, frantic, crazy, mad, maddened, beside oneself, carried away.
lot, n. 1. straw, pebble, counter, check, chip, number; die, Inf. bone.
2. lottery, drawing, pulling, drawing straws, casting lots; sweepstakes, raffle.
3. luck, chance, hazard, gamble, Archaic, hap; random shot, tossup, pot luck; fortuity, serendipity, fluke, stroke, happenstance, lucky pick, lucky number.
4. fortune, fate, destiny, kismet; circumstances, estate, state, condition, situation, status, station; portion, cup, plight, end, final lot, doom; Inf. the way the cookie crumbles or the ball bounces.
5. part, share, interest, alloted share or portion, apportionment, allotment, measure; allowance, proportion, ration, dole, pittance, Archaic, meed; commission, percentage, Inf. cut, SI. rake-off, SI. whack, SI. piece of the pie.
6. plot, tract, patch, plat; division, field, piece of ground, property, house lot, building lot; block, square, section.
7. parcel, packet, package, set, bundle, pack, batch, load, shipment; collection, clutter, Inf. mess, SI. slew.
8. group, party, band, crew, outfit, pack, cohort; flock, company, body, complement, contingent, Inf. crowd, Inf. team, Inf. string, Inf. stable; troop, gang, army, multitude, host, SI. mob.
9. Informal, kind, sort, ilk, type; variety, species, family, class, order; tribe, clan, race, strain, blood, breed, caste.
10.
a lot, lots Informal, deal, good or great deal, a great quantity, quantity, much, much of a muchness; volume, mass, mountain, load, tons, barrels, worlds, acres, oceans, heap, heaps, pile, piles, stack, stacks, loads, slews; mint, peck, oodles, gobs, scads; considerable, considerable number, many, numerous; SI. boodle, SI. caboodle, Dial, aplenty.
11.
throw one's lot in with join fortunes with, make common cause with, ally or align oneself with, link up with; wed, marry, bind, league, affiliate, combine with, join, Inf. throw in with, SI. hook up with; support, stand with or by, stand up with, go with, run with, join forces with, make a commitment to, pledge one's support to, Inf. jump on the bandwagon, Inf. join the parade.