lost to the world

Definitions

1. 1

   Of a thing, event, etc., no longer used or available

   Of a thing, event, etc., no longer used or available; unknown to or forgotten by everyone.

   • [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.
2. 2

   Of a person, no longer existent, deceased.

   • 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.
3. 3

   Of a person, physically located in a remote place where one is unnoticed or incommunicado.

   • We have trekked the veldt and been lost to the world for many months at a time
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   1. 4

      Of a person, mentally focused on one's own thoughts or feelings, or on some task, to such…

      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.

      • Bill had relapsed into a sort of waking dream. He sat frowning sombrely, lost to the world.
      • Patients in a deep vegetative coma who seem otherwise lost to the world will show skin responsiveness when touched by a nurse.

The neighborhood

• neighbordead to the world
• neighbordown for the count
• neighborout cold