lost at sea
Drowned or drifting
Lost at sea describes someone or something that has disappeared in the ocean and cannot be found—a ship that sank without a trace, a sailor swept overboard.
The phrase extends to feelings of profound confusion or disorientation: I'm completely lost at sea with this new software.
To be lost at sea is to lack any bearings or sense of direction.
- adriftFloating without control
- shipwreckDestroyed vessel at sea
- castawayShipwrecked and stranded person
- strandedLeft without means to leave
- man overboardAlert for fallen sailor
drowning · mayday · rescue · lifeboat · life jacket · wreckage · flotsam · ghost ship · survivors · no survivors · presumed dead · ocean · waves · horizon · uncharted waters · Bermuda Triangle · compass · lighthouse
- Sea StoriesOdyssey, nautical tales, Robinson Crusoe, shipwreck story, pirate tale
- sea talespirate story, mermaid tale, ghost ships, shipwrecks, ocean voyage
- survival storiesescape story, wilderness survival, shipwreck tales, shipwreck, mountain survival
- confusionconfusion, confused, bewilderment, perplexity, baffled
- navigation errorsmissed exit, wrong direction, wrong way, off course, wrong route
- sea in literatureMoby Dick, ocean voyages, whaling, Odyssey, Treasure Island
outcome/resolution
lost at searescued
Freed from danger
saved · recovered · brought home · made landfall · survived