LOST CAUSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lost cause mean? 

• LOST CAUSE (noun)
  The noun LOST CAUSE has 1 sense:

1. a defeated cause or a cause for which defeat is inevitable

  Familiarity information: LOST CAUSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOST CAUSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A defeated cause or a cause for which defeat is inevitable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("lost cause" is a kind of...):

campaign; cause; crusade; drive; effort; movement (a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end)

 Context examples 

In some cases, you can receive support from your partner, but in other cases, you may have tried but now might feel it’s a lost cause.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“He led a lost cause, and he was not afraid of God’s thunderbolts,” Wolf Larsen was saying.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)