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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | All is lost that is put in a riven dish. In Latin, "Pertusum quiequid infunditur in dolium, perit." (It is no use helping the insolvent.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Failure | Phrase: the bubble has burst, "the jig is up", "the game is up"; all is lost; the devil to pay; parturiunt montes; (disappointment); dies infaustus; tout est perdu hors l'honneur. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Clever | When wealth is lost, nothing is lost: when health is lost, something is lost: when character is lost, all is lost. (references; author: German Proverb) | |
Movie/TV Titles | All Is Lost (1924) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Author | Quotation |
German Proverb | When wealth is lost, nothing is lost: when health is lost, something is lost: when character is lost, all is lost. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Language | Translations for "ALL IS LOST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Czech | je po všem veta. (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | minden elveszett. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | allay isay ostlay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-l-l-l-o-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: tallols. | |
-3 letters: allots, assoil, atolls, salols, stalls, stills, tallis, tallol. | |
-4 letters: alist, allot, altos, atoll, iotas, lalls, lasso, lasts, lilts, lists, litas, lolls, lotas, oasis, oasts, ollas, ossia, ostia, sails, salol, salts, satis, sials, sills, silos, silts, sisal, slats, slits, slots, soils, stall, still, stoai, stoas, tails, tills, toils, tolas, tolls. | |
-5 letters: ails, aits. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-l-l-l-o-s-s-t" | |
+3 letters: glossolalist, swallowtails. | |
+4 letters: glossolalists. | |
+5 letters: scholastically. | |
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| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Quotations: Familiar 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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