The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms INTRO ...

are in place to stem the loss of parkland. 3 disadvantage,
detriment, harm, impairment, injury, damage: I don't regard
Wentworth's resignation as any great loss. 4 waste, wastage,
wasting, squandering: The loss of time was owing to a train
delay. 5 defeat, set-back, disadvantage, disappointment,
failure, downfall, collapse, breakdown, ruin; drubbing,
trouncing: His loss is my gain. 6 Often, losses. debit(s),
liability (liabilities), negative cash flow: The company wrote
off the losses. 7 Often, losses. death, dying, passing, demise,
destruction, extermination, extinction, annihilation: The loss
from disease was overwhelming. What losses did they suffer in
the battle?
lost adj. 1 gone, departed, vanished, strayed; missing, mislaid,
misplaced, irrecoverable: They found my lost dog. The airline
told me that my bag was lost. 2 wasted, misspent, gone by the
board, squandered, down the drain, spent, exhausted, Colloq out
of the window: The new arrangement is resulting in a lot of
time lost. I watched another lost opportunity slip by. 3
confused, baffled, perplexed, puzzled, mystified, bewildered,
confounded, adrift, helpless, disoriented, at sea, astray: I am
totally lost when it comes to high finance. 4 forgotten,
bygone, extinct, past, obsolete, vanished, buried: Good writing
needn't be a lost art. 5 dead, extinct, departed, fallen, late:
We held a memorial service for our lost comrades. 6 destroyed,
demolished, devastated, ruined, wrecked, irreparable,
unsalvageable, irreclaimable, irremediable: After the expos‚ in
the newspaper, his name was consigned to the limbo of lost
reputations. 7 damned, cursed, accursed, abandoned, corrupt,
fallen, wanton, unchaste, dissolute: Unrepentant sinners are
lost souls. 8 hopeless, distraught, distracted, desperate,
frantic, frenzied: He had the lost look of a cornered fugitive.
lot n. 1 collection, batch, consignment, assortment, group,
portion, set, quantity, grouping, apportionment: They are
expecting a new lot of furniture this afternoon. 2 luck,
fortune, destiny, fate, kismet, plight, doom, end: It seems to
be my lot to stay in the same place all my life. 3 lottery,
drawing, raffle, drawing lots or straws: The winner will be
decided by lot. 4 share, portion, division, interest, part,
allotment, assignment, apportionment, ration, allowance:
Marguerite was bequeathed the house, while my lot included the
paintings. 5 a lot or lots. a a good or great deal: You have a