0 someone or something that has no chance of succeeding: --
1 something that cannot be achieved: --
Such people show enormous courage, and for that reason they attract every pressure group and lost cause.
Education without the good will and expertise of the teaching profession is a lost cause.
I think my noble friend may be fighting in a good cause, but so far as this question is concerned it is a lost cause.
He said rather apologetically that he was pleading a lost cause.
I think that it is a sign that we are not entirely a lost cause.
It also means that when the committee voted by a majority of one to reject the common position, it was already fighting a lost cause.
Everybody who heard him will admire the gallantry and courage with which he pursues his lonely battle for a lost cause.
I am convinced that they are in some degree defending a lost cause.
