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lost soul

noun

Definitions

  1. A soul that is destined to go to hell

    A soul that is destined to go to hell; a person possessing such a soul.

    • “Well, I won't repeat my offer of a wife—It is as bad as offering Satan a lost soul—[…]”
    • St. Malo, seized with pity for the lost soul of the heathen, opens the mound and raises the dead to life.

  2. One who is forlorn, who lacks direction, purpose, or motivation in life.

    • 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.
    • 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.
    • We're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA