vain in English

adjective

1

having or showing an excessively high opinion of one's appearance, abilities, or worth.

their flattery made him vain

synonyms: conceited, narcissistic, self-loving, in love with oneself, self-admiring, self-regarding, self-obsessed, egocentric, egotistic, egotistical, proud, arrogant, boastful, cocky, cocksure, immodest, swaggering, big-headed, vainglorious

2

producing no result; useless.

a vain attempt to tidy up the room

adjective

conceited, narcissistic, self-loving, in love with oneself, self-admiring, self-regarding, self-obsessed, egocentric, egotistic, egotistical, proud, arrogant, boastful, cocky, cocksure, immodest, swaggering, big-headed, vainglorious
futile, useless, pointless, to no purpose, hopeless, in vain, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, impotent, unavailing, to no avail, fruitless, profitless, unrewarding, unproductive, unsuccessful, failed, abortive, for nothing, thwarted, frustrated, foiled, bootless
sleeveless, futile, fruitless, bootless
egotistic, conceited, swollen-headed, self-conceited, swollen, egotistical

Use "vain" in a sentence

1. “Vain thought Conceivest thou

2. Or life is vain.

3. She's just a vain, foolish woman.

4. We are weak, vain creatures.

5. He was vain and ostentatious.

6. He was vain and bombastic.

7. Opportunity had not Beckoned him in vain

8. All his father's exhortations were in vain.

9. Vain glory blossoms but never bears. 

10. All our work was in vain.

11. All our efforts were in vain.

12. He was nothing if not vain.

13. Tiekyltteihin mahtuu vain englantia ja Afrikaansia

14. Some are proud, vain, and foolish.

15. Doctors battled in vain to save his life.

16. Police searched in vain for the missing gunman.

17. ♫ but it was all in vain.

18. But if Christ has not been raised up, our preaching is certainly in vain, and our faith is in vain.

19. Parents campaigned in vain for her reinstatement.

20. Particularly if he's a vain, silly man.

21. In vain you have multiplied your remedies,

22. They waited in vain for a response.

23. But if Christ has not been raised up, our preaching is certainly in vain, and our faith is in vain. . . .

24. They tried in vain to persuade her to go.

25. They endeavoured to make her happy but in vain.

26. They attempted in vain to modernise these antiquated industries.

27. These lackeys of bourgeois criticism can yap in vain.

28. I tried in vain to start a conversation.

29. An old dog barks not in vain. 

30. It is but vain unjustly to wage war.

31. Nevertheless, Anton Koberger did not labor in vain.

32. They sought in vain for somewhere to shelter.

33. We searched in vain for the missing child.

34. Haunted by vain regrets, and pallid, sorrowful faces.

35. She tried in vain to attain to fame.

36. He tried in vain to attain to fame.

37. Have you been taking my name in vain ?

38. I seek neither vain formality nor luxurious appointment.

39. They were opionative, peevish, covetous, porase, vain, talkative.

40. Men can be just as vain as women.

41. I tried in vain to dispel her misgivings.

42. Hullo ! Who's that, taking my name in vain?

43. The Avenging NARWHAL does not kill in vain

44. 1 Her counterpart left in vain and vapidity.

45. She a frivolous little fool vain and flighty.

46. I think he is shallow, vain and untrustworthy.

47. Braggadocio definition: vain empty boasting Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

48. ’Tis Altogether vain to learn wisdom and yet live foolishly

49. All the police's efforts to find him were in vain.

50. We tried in vain to make him change his mind.