lose focus
Let attention wander
To lose focus is to stop concentrating on what you were attending to.
The phrase works literally—a camera or eye loses focus when the image blurs—and figuratively for attention: I kept losing focus during the lecture.
One can lose focus momentarily or drift away from long-term goals: The company lost focus and started chasing too many markets at once.
- distractedUnable to concentrate
- driftingMoving without purpose
- zoning outLosing conscious attention temporarily
- zoned outMentally checked out
- spaced outInattentive, mentally elsewhere
daydreaming · head in the clouds · wandering · scattered · unfocused · blurry · hazy · in a daze · spacing out · foggy · absent-minded · glazed · drowsy · mind-wandering · tuning out · checked out · fuzzy · adrift
- Attention phrasespay attention, heads up, watch out, look out, keep an eye on
- mental lapseslapse, forget, slip, misplace, overlook
- distractionsdistraction, digression, tangent, sidetrack, diversion
- zoning outzone out, space out, daze, trance, tune out
- drifting awayfade, float, glide, wander, slip
- tuning outignore, zone out, space out, block out, filter out
lose focusconcentrate
Reduced, potent form
focus · pay attention · zero in · hone in · lock in
lose focusstay on track
stay the course · persevere · double down · stay determined · hold steady
lose, focus, loses, losing, loser, losers, lost, loss, losses