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lost soul en · NOUN

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  1. (qualifier:set phrase) A soul that is destined to go to hell; a person possessing such a soul.
    • St. Malo, seized with pity for the lost soul of the heathen, opens the mound and raises the dead to life. 1869, Charles Kingsley, chapter 11, in The Hermits:
    • “Well, I won't repeat my offer of a wife—It is as bad as offering Satan a lost soul—[…]” 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter 11, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume I, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC, page 253:
  2. (broadly) One who is forlorn, who lacks direction, purpose, or motivation in life.
    • We're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year 1975, David Gilmour, Roger Waters, “Wish You Were Here”, in Wish You Were Here, performed by Pink Floyd:
    • Of course she stopped paying her dues to the union. She lost all interest in the union[…]. She had about made up her mind that she was a lost soul. 1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, chapter X, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC:
    • Charles Jackson's first novel, The Lost Weekend, was the story of five days in the life of a lost soul, Don Birnam, a confirmed and hopeless alcoholic. 1946 October 7, “Books: The Fall of Valor”, in Time, retrieved 05 May 2015:

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Relateds

woebegone

Synonyms

loser · sad sack

Translations (9)

pt perdido na vida (a person lacking direction or motivation in life) · mi ihongaro (a person lacking direction or motivation in life) · es alma perdida (a person lacking direction or motivation in life) · pt alma penada (a soul or person destined to go to hell) · fr âme en peine (a person lacking direction or motivation in life) · pl osoba zagubiona (a person lacking direction or motivation in life) · es alma en pena (a person lacking direction or motivation in life) · fi menetetty sielu (a soul or person destined to go to hell) · fi eksynyt sielu (a person lacking direction or motivation in life)