1
[ adjective ] filled with bewilderment

Examples

"at a loss to understand those remarks" "puzzled that she left without saying goodbye"

Used in print

(Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)

But then this theory confesses that it is completely at_a_loss as to how the image can possibly be received by the brain .

Related terms

perplexed

2
[ adverb ] below cost

Examples

"sold the car at a loss"

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