Losest vs Lostest - What's the difference?
losest | lostest |
(nonstandard) (lost)
* {{quote-magazine
, magazine=The Sunday School Journal and Bible Student's Magazine
, volume=38
, issue=9
, month=September
, year=1906
, page=675
, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=JaooAAAAMAAJ&dq=the%20lostest&pg=PA675v=onepage&q=the%20lostest&f=false
}}
* {{quote-book
, title=The man and the message
, last=Tardy
, first=William Thomas
, year=1920
, publisher=Mrs. W.T. Tardy
, page=100
, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=uHNTAAAAYAAJ&dq=the%20lostest&pg=PA100v=onepage&q=the%20lostest&f=false
}}
* {{quote-book
, title=
, authorlink=James A. Owen
, last=Owen
, first=James A.
, year=2009
, publisher=Simon and Schuster
, page=269
, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=f5vsiEMkr2UC&lpg=PA269&dq=the%20lostest&pg=PA269v=onepage&q=the%20lostest&f=false
}}
As adjectives the difference between losest and lostest
is that losest is misspelling of lang=en while lostest is superlative of lost.As a verb losest
is archaic second-person singular of lose lang=en.lostest
English
Adjective
(head)- The strongest sheep can be the "lostest " because of its power to go farthest into the wilderness.
- No man can safely be left alone, and the lostest man in all creation is he who says "No one cares for my soul."
- And when you add to that the peculiar weather patterns, the temporal shifts, and mermaids who had a tendency to chew up any cables strung underwater, the result was the lostest of lost causes.
