We study unboundedness properties of functions belonging to Lebesgue and Lorentz spaces with variable and mixed norms using growth envelopes. Our results extend the ones for the corresponding classical spaces in a natural way. In the case of spaces with mixed norms, it turns out that the unboundedness in the worst direction, i.e., in the direction where p_{i} is the smallest, is crucial. More precisely, the growth envelope is given by {mathfrak {E}}_{{mathsf {G}}}(L_{overrightarrow{p}}(varOmega )) = (t^{-1/min {p_{1}, ldots , p_{d} }},min {p_{1}, ldots , p_{d} }) for mixed Lebesgue and {mathfrak {E}}_{{mathsf {G}}}(L_{overrightarrow{p},q}(varOmega )) = (t^{-1/min {p_{1}, ldots , p_{d} }},q) for mixed Lorentz spaces, respectively. For the variable Lebesgue spaces, we obtain {mathfrak {E}}_{{mathsf {G}}}(L_{p(cdot )}(varOmega )) = (t^{-1/p_{-}},p_{-}), where p_{-} is the essential infimum of p(cdot ), subject to some further assumptions. Similarly, for the variable Lorentz space, it holds{mathfrak {E}}_{{mathsf {G}}}(L_{p(cdot ),q}(varOmega )) = (t^{-1/p_{-}},q). The growth envelope is used for Hardy-type inequalities and limiting embeddings. In particular, as a by-product, we determine the smallest classical Lebesgue (Lorentz) space which contains a fixed mixed or variable Lebesgue (Lorentz) space, respectively.
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