Lost Cause Definition

noun
An undertaking or movement that has failed or is certain to fail.
Webster's New World

(idiomatic) A cause, attempt, or effort that is hopeless or futile.

He has already made up his mind, and it's a lost cause to try to change it.
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Noun

Singular:
lost cause
Plural:
lost causes

Lost Cause Sentence Examples

  • Many attempts were made to shake his fidelity to the lost cause of the Stuarts, but he continued indomitable to the end.

  • Russie is a lost cause.

  • I don't think he's the lost cause you're making him out to be, she said, disturbed.

  • Rhyn was a lost cause from the beginning.

  • Then again, if she gained more confidence, maybe it would make both Alex and Katie feel that she wasn't a lost cause.

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