movement vs lost cause

lost cause vs movement

movement and lost cause both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
movement	Yes	No	No	No
lost cause	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, lost cause is a hyponym of movement; that is, lost cause is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than movement:

movement: a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
lost cause: a defeated cause or a cause for which defeat is inevitable

Other hyponyms of movement include ad blitz, ad campaign, advertising campaign, anti-war movement, charm campaign, consumerism, campaigning, candidacy, candidature, electioneering, political campaign, fund-raising campaign, fund-raising drive, fund-raising effort, feminism, feminist movement, women's lib, women's liberation movement, gay lib, gay liberation movement, reform, war, youth crusade, youth movement.

movement (noun)	lost cause (noun)
a change of position that does not entail a change of location	a defeated cause or a cause for which defeat is inevitable
the act of changing the location of something
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
the act of changing location from one place to another
the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
a euphemism for defecation

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