lost to the world
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.27 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of a person, physically located in a remote place where one is unnoticed or incommunicado.
adj
Of a person, mentally focused on one's own thoughts or feelings, or on some task, to such a degree that one is unaware of other people or of one's surroundings; unconscious.
Example Sentences
- "[I]t seems this Method is of late grown out of Practice, and so like the melting of Marble and the painting of Glass, ’tis laid aside among the various useful Arts which History tells us are lost to the World."
- "In those days there was a word "trashy," now almost lost to the world. My dear Aunt Charlotte used that epithet when, in her feminine way, she swore at people she did not like."
- "When he saw the car escaping he ran after it and shouted something which, owing to the increasing distance, could not be heard. It is awful to reflect that, if his remark was valuable, it is quite lost to the world."
- "In a 2013 audit, the library’s inspector general warned that millions of items, some from as far back as the 1980s, remained piled in overflowing buildings and warehouses, virtually lost to the world."
- "He was a sympathiser to the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of England’s greatest writers is lost to the world."
- "A host of great writers, musicians and actors were lost to the world in 2015, including Leonard Nimoy, Terry Pratchett, Cilla Black and BB King."
Inflected Forms
more lost to the world (comparative)
most lost to the world (superlative)