lost cause
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.07 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The belief that the Confederate cause during the American Civil War was just and not related to slavery.
Example Sentences
- "He has already made up his mind, and it's a lost cause to try to change it."
- "Artfully pulling the ball back to leave McCleary chasing a lost cause, Sánchez calmly made space for a shot and applied a finish that beat the despairing dives of both Federici and Michael Hector, the latter vainly attempting to recover position when it was too late."
- "I get the sense that it's a lost cause / I get the sense that you might really love her / This text gon' be evidence, this text is evidence / I tried to ration with you, no murders or crimes of passion, but damn"
- "Also implicit was the idea that all southerners accepted the basic tenets of the Lost Cause myth and concurred in this celebration of the Confederacy."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
lost causes (plural)
the Lost Cause (canonical)