"lost on" meaning in English

See lost on in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} lost on (not comparable)
  1. (idiomatic) not understood or appreciated by (someone) Tags: idiomatic, not-comparable

Download JSON data for lost on meaning in English (2.0kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "lost on (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English negative polarity items",
          "parents": [
            "Negative polarity items",
            "Terms by semantic function"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Those lessons were lost on him.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 May 28, Sam Jones, Uki Goñi, “Bard timing: Argentinian TV reports death of Shakespeare after Covid jab”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Sadly, the distinction was lost on Novillo as she informed viewers of the playwright’s death during the 8-10pm slot on Thursday.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 December 12, Karen Weise, Eric Berger, quoting Sharon Autenrieth, “At Amazon Site, Tornado Collided With Company’s Peak Delivery Season”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "“It’s not lost on me, Lord, that this was an Amazon warehouse, and I, like so many other people in this country, get irritated if I can’t get my Christmas gifts in three days from Amazon,” Sharon Autenrieth, the pastor, said during the service.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "not understood or appreciated by (someone)"
      ],
      "id": "en-lost_on-en-adj-iGkUQ98J",
      "links": [
        [
          "understood",
          "understand"
        ],
        [
          "appreciate",
          "appreciate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) not understood or appreciated by (someone)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lost on"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "lost on (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English negative polarity items",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English uncomparable adjectives"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Those lessons were lost on him.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 May 28, Sam Jones, Uki Goñi, “Bard timing: Argentinian TV reports death of Shakespeare after Covid jab”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Sadly, the distinction was lost on Novillo as she informed viewers of the playwright’s death during the 8-10pm slot on Thursday.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 December 12, Karen Weise, Eric Berger, quoting Sharon Autenrieth, “At Amazon Site, Tornado Collided With Company’s Peak Delivery Season”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "“It’s not lost on me, Lord, that this was an Amazon warehouse, and I, like so many other people in this country, get irritated if I can’t get my Christmas gifts in three days from Amazon,” Sharon Autenrieth, the pastor, said during the service.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "not understood or appreciated by (someone)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "understood",
          "understand"
        ],
        [
          "appreciate",
          "appreciate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) not understood or appreciated by (someone)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lost on"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.