Related Words for at a loss

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perplexed
x/
Adjective
puzzled
/x
Adjective, Adjective
lost cause
//
Phrase, Noun
hopeless
/x
Adjective
hopelessly
/xx
Adverb
helpless
/x
Adjective
loosing
/x
Verb
loses
/x
Verb
incomprehension
xxx/x
Noun
clueless
/x
Noun
devastated
/xxx
Verb
unsuccessful
xx/x
Adjective
despondent
x/x
Adjective
powerless
/xx
Adjective
stumped
/
Verb
disheartened
x/x
Verb
penniless
/xx
Adjective
luckless
/x
Adjective
despairing
x/x
Noun
jobless
/x
Adjective
failure
/x
Noun
bereft of
x//
Phrase
lose out
//
Phrase, Verb
incoherent
xx/x
Adjective
unavailing
xx/x
Adjective
dumbfounded
/xx
Verb
floundering
/xx
Noun
lacking
/x
Verb
emptiness
/xx
Noun
confusion
x/x
Noun
blankness
/x
Noun
bafflement
/xx
Noun
heartbroken
/xx
Adjective
lose heart
//
Phrase, Verb
unmotivated
x/xxx
Adjective
missing
/x
Verb
unfocused
x/x
Adjective
sadness
/x
Noun
inarticulate
xx/xx
Adjective
bewildered
x/x
Verb
voiceless
/x
Noun
dejected
x/x
Adjective
futility
x/xx
Noun
confused
x/
Verb
unable
x/x
Adjective
friendless
/x
Adjective
undefined
xx/
Adjective
uselessness
/xx
Noun
disconsolate
xxxx
Adjective
lost soul
//
Phrase, Noun
meaninglessness
/xxx
Noun
unintelligible
xx/xxx
Adjective
disoriented
x/xxx
Verb
incoherence
xx/x
Noun
illiterate
x/xx
Adjective
struggling
/xx
Verb
failing
/x
Verb
perplexity
x/xx
Noun
inability
xx/xx
Noun
gave up
//
Phrase, Noun
illiteracy
x/xxx
Noun
incomplete
xx/
Adjective
unprepared
xx/
Adjective
despondency
x/xx
Noun
unemployed
xx/
Adjective
giving up
/x/
Phrase, Adjective
abandonment
x/xx
Noun
abdication
xx/x
Noun
abolition
xx/x
Noun
absence
/x
Noun
absorption
x/x
Noun
add
/
Verb, Noun
amnesia
x/x
Noun
amount
x/
Noun, Verb
amputation
xx/x
Noun
attrition
x/x
Noun, Verb
benefit
/xx
Noun, Verb
bereavement
x/x
Noun
blow
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
breakdown
/x
Noun
capitulation
xxx/x
Noun
casualties
/xxx
Noun
cessation
x/x
Noun
claim
/
Noun, Verb
collapse
x/
Noun, Verb
compensation
xx/x
Noun
continuation
xxx/x
Noun
correlation
xx/x
Noun
costs
/
Noun
curtailment
x/x
Noun
damages
/xx
Noun
danger
/x
Noun, Verb
dead
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
deaths
/
Noun
decay
x/
Noun, Verb
decision
x/x
Noun, Verb
declines
x/
Noun, Verb
decreases
x/x
Verb, Noun
decrement
xxx
Noun, Verb
deduction
x/x
Noun
defeat
x/
Noun, Verb
deferment
x/x
Noun
deficits
/xx
Noun
degeneration
xxx/x
Noun
degradation
xx/x
Noun
deletion
x/x
Noun
demise
x/
Noun, Verb
departure
x/x
Noun
depleting
x/x
Verb, Adjective
depreciation
xxx/x
Noun
deprivation
xx/x
Noun
destruction
x/x
Noun
deterioration
x/xxxx
Noun
detriment
/xx
Noun, Verb
diminution
xx/x
Noun
disability
xx/xx
Noun
disadvantage
xx/x
Noun, Verb
disappearances
xx/xx
Verb
disappeared
xx/
Adjective
disaster
x/x
Noun
dispersion
x/x
Noun
dispossession
xx/x
Noun
disqualification
xxxx/x
Noun
distortion
x/x
Noun
distribution
xx/x
Noun
doom
/
Noun, Verb
downfall
/x
Noun, Verb
downturn
/x
Noun, Verb
drain
/
Verb, Noun
drop
/
Noun, Verb
dropout
/x
Noun
efflux
/x
Noun, Verb
elimination
xxx/x
Noun
endangered
x/x
Adjective
erosion
x/x
Noun
exchange
x/
Noun, Verb
exhaustion
x/x
Noun
exit
/x
Noun, Verb
expansion
x/x
Noun
expenditure
x/xx
Noun
expense
x/
Noun, Verb
expiration
xx/x
Noun
extinction
x/x
Noun
extirpation
/xxx
Noun
fall
/
Verb, Noun
filtering
/xx
Noun
find
/
Verb, Noun
forfeit
/x
Verb, Noun, Adjective
forfeiture
/xx
Noun
forgone
x/
Verb, Noun
friction
/x
Noun
gain
/
Verb, Noun, Adjective, Adverb
gap
/
Noun, Verb
going
/x
Verb, Noun, Adjective
grief
/
Noun, Verb
grieving
/x
Noun
harm
/
Noun, Verb
impairment
x/x
Noun
impoverishment
x/xx
Noun
income
/x
Noun
increase
x/
Noun, Verb
indemnification
xxxx/x
Noun
injury
/xx
Noun, Verb
interest
/x
Noun, Verb
interruption
xx/x
Noun
invasion
x/x
Noun
investment
x/x
Noun
irregularity
xxx/xx
Noun
lapse
/
Noun, Verb
leaching
/x
Noun
leak
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
leakage
/x
Noun
lessening
/xx
Noun
loser
/x
Noun
losses
/x
Noun
mourning
/x
Noun
order
/x
Noun, Verb
outage
/x
Noun
outcome
/x
Noun
outflow
/x
Noun, Verb
outlay
/x
Noun, Verb
pain
/
Noun, Verb
panel
/x
Noun, Verb
passing
/x
Noun, Adjective, Adverb
pillaging
/xx
Noun
polarization
xxx/x
Noun
prejudice
/xx
Noun, Verb, Adjective
profit
/x
Noun, Verb
protection
x/x
Noun
reductions
x/x
Noun
release
x/
Noun, Verb
relinquishment
x/xx
Noun
removal
x/x
Noun
renunciation
xxx/x
Noun
result
x/
Noun, Verb
reversal
x/x
Noun, Adjective
revocation
xx/x
Noun
rise
/
Noun, Verb
risk
/
Noun, Verb
ruin
/x
Noun, Verb
sacrifice
/xx
Noun, Verb
saving
/x
Noun, Adjective
scattering
/xx
Noun
seepage
/x
Noun
setback
/x
Noun
shedding
/x
Noun
shipwreck
/x
Noun, Verb
shortage
/x
Noun
shortfall
/x
Noun
shrinkage
/x
Noun
sinking
/x
Noun
sorrow
/x
Noun, Verb
strata
/x
Noun
substitution
xx/x
Noun
suffering
/xx
Noun, Adjective
surrender
x/x
Noun, Verb
termination
xx/x
Noun
thinning
/x
Noun, Adjective
title
/x
Noun, Verb
toll
/
Noun, Verb
undoing
x/x
Noun
vanishing
/xx
Adjective
waist
/
Noun
wastage
/x
Noun
waste
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
watering
/xx
Noun
weakening
/xx
Noun
weight
/
Noun, Verb
win
/
Verb, Noun
withdrawal
x/x
Noun
wound
/
Noun, Verb
wreck
/
Noun, Verb