Usually means: Effort doomed to fail inevitably.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word lost cause:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. lost cause: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lost cause: Merriam-Webster
  3. lost cause: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lost cause: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lost cause: Vocabulary.com
  6. lost cause: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. lost cause: Wiktionary
  8. lost cause: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. lost cause: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. lost cause: Dictionary.com
  11. Lost Cause (Tory Lanez mixtape), Lost Cause (disambiguation), Lost Cause (song), Lost Cause, Lost cause, The Lost Cause: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. lost cause: Rhymezone
  13. lost cause: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  14. lost cause: FreeDictionary.org
  15. lost cause: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. lost cause: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lost cause: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lost cause: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lost cause: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See lost_causes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Lost Cause)

noun:  (idiomatic) A person or thing that is hopeless or futile.
noun:  The belief that the Confederate cause during the American Civil War was just and not related to slavery.

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