lost causenoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˌlɒst ˈkɔːz/us/ˌlɑːst ˈkɑːz/someone or something that has no chance of succeeding:
I used to try to get him to do some exercise but then decided he was a lost cause.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Failures
- a dog's breakfast idiom
- another/the final nail in the coffin idiom
- breakdown
- car crash
- cock-up
- dead duck
- foul-up
- free fall
- hash
- lemon
- lulu
- mess
- mess-up
- might-have-been
- parody
- slush pile
- track record
- train wreck
- turkey
- underachiever
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