Found and Lost

Found

Found adjective - Come upon unexpectedly or after searching.
Usage example: found art

Lost is an antonym for found.

Lost

Lost adjective - Spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed.
Usage example: lost souls

Found is an antonym for lost in topics: extinct, missing, distracted.

Nearby Word: losing

Both words in one sentence

  • Literature / The Lost World (1912) It escapes while it's being shown off, resulting in a case of species lost and found and then lost again.
  • In one Berenstain Bears book, where the boy gets lost at the mall, he gets to look in the lost and found.
  • Amazing race, how sweet the taste That saves a wrench for me, I once was in the lost and found Was blind but found my keys
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