lost signal
Contact was severed
Lost signal describes the failure or interruption of a transmission—radio, cellular, satellite, or other communication link.
The phrase appears when devices can no longer receive or maintain connection: My phone lost signal in the tunnel, The TV screen went black—we lost signal during the storm.
Figuratively, losing signal can mean losing touch or understanding: Somewhere in the argument, I lost signal on what we were even fighting about.
- disconnectedSeparated from a source
- staticWithout motion or change
- interferenceUnwelcome involvement in affairs
- droppedLet fall downward
- out of rangeBeyond effective distance
breaking up · can you hear me · fading · noise · searching · weak · dead zone · buffering · reception · antenna · transmission · blackout · silence · gone dark · scrambled · cutoff · radar · beacon
- Communication Problemsmiscommunication, misunderstanding, static, garbled, interference
- connection statusconnected, disconnected, online, offline, connecting
- signal problemsbad connection, dead zone, dead zones, dropped calls, unreachable