vain

[vain]

If you spend all day admiring yourself in reflective surfaces mirrors, pools of water, the backs of spoons people may think you are conceited or vain.

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Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying.

Adjective S.
unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt"

Adjective S.
characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever mo


superl.
Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying.

superl.
Destitute of forge or efficacy; effecting no purpose; fruitless; ineffectual; as, vain toil; a vain attempt.

superl.
Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason; conceited; puffed up; inflated.

superl.
Showy; ostentatious.

n.
Vanity; emptiness; -- now used only in the phrase in vain.


Vain

Vain , a. [Compar. Vainer ; superl. Vainest.] [F. vain, L. vanus empty, void, vain. Cf. Vanish, Vanity, Vaunt to boast.] 1. Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying. "Thy vain excuse." Shak.
Every man walketh in a vain show.
Let no man deceive you with vain words.
Vain pomp, and glory of this world, I hate ye!
Vain visdom all, and false philosophy.
2. Destitute of forge or efficacy; effecting no purpose; fruitless; ineffectual; as, vain toil; a vain attempt.
Bring no more vain oblations.
Vain is the force of man To crush the pillars which the pile sustain.
3. Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason; conceited; puffed up; inflated.
But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is barren?
The minstrels played on every side, Vain of their art.
4. Showy; ostentatious.
Load some vain church with old theatric state.
Syn. -- Empty; worthless; fruitless; ineffectual; idle; unreal; shadowy; showy; ostentatious; light; inconstant; deceitful; delusive; unimportant; trifling.

Vain

Vain, n. Vanity; emptiness; -- now used only in the phrase in vain. For vain. See In vain. [Obs.] Shak. -- In vain, to no purpose; without effect; ineffectually. " In vain doth valor bleed." Milton. " In vain they do worship me." Matt. xv. 9. -- To take the name of God in vain, to use the name of God with levity or profaneness.

Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying.

Vanity; emptiness; -- now used only in the phrase in vain.

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Usage Examples

Do not follow vain desires for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

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