Definition for Vain:

• Empty; unreal; ineffectual; fruitless.

Synonyms for Vain:

• adj.

  •boastful (adjective)
  • pretentious,
  • bragging,
  • boastful,
  • self-applauding,
  • haughty,
  • conceited,
  • self-important,
  • windy,
  • inflated,
  • fat-headed,
  • self-praising,
  • bombastic.
  •egotistical (adjective)
  • ostentatious,
  • overweening,
  • swaggering,
  • cocky,
  • pleased with oneself,
  • egocentric,
  • swollen-headed,
  • high-and-mighty.
  •failing (adjective)
  • unsuccessful,
  • insufficient.
  •fustian (adjective)
  • Flaunting.
  •futile, useless (adjective)
  • senseless,
  • puny,
  • slight,
  • frivolous,
  • shuck,
  • paltry,
  • worthless,
  • sterile,
  • time-wasting,
  • insignificant,
  • delusive,
  • bootless,
  • unimportant,
  • delusory,
  • unproductive,
  • profitless,
  • trifling,
  • misleading,
  • valueless,
  • petty,
  • unnotable,
  • trivial,
  • not a prayer,
  • going nowhere.
  •hopeless (adjective)
  • irremediable,
  • desperate.
  •meaningless (adjective)
  • meaningless.
  •ostentatious (adjective)
  • ornate,
  • showy,
  • blatant,
  • grandiose,
  • grandiloquent,
  • rakish,
  • flourishing,
  • affected,
  • dashing,
  • jaunty,
  • dramatic,
  • splashy,
  • stilted,
  • gaudy,
  • histrionic,
  • garish,
  • sensational,
  • snazzy,
  • flamboyant,
  • fussy,
  • formal,
  • exhibitionistic,
  • flagrant,
  • opulent,
  • shameless,
  • forced,
  • flashy.
  •proud (adjective)
  • high-handed,
  • condescending,
  • swellheaded,
  • Preening,
  • crowing,
  • confident,
  • hoity-toity,
  • huffy,
  • grand,
  • smug,
  • self-glorying,
  • assured.
  •selfish (adjective)
  • selfish,
  • self-centered,
  • hoggish,
  • greedy,
  • self-occupied.
  •unsuccessful (adjective)
  • frustrated,
  • thwarted,
  • foiled,
  • failed,
  • ineffectual.
  •vain (adjective)
  • self-flattering,
  • superficial.

• n.

  •
  • superior,
  • immodest.
  •
  • barren.
  •
  • vacant,
  • hollow.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • patronizing,
  • lordly,
  • impossible,
  • snooty,
  • big-headed,
  • self-appointed,
  • snotty,
  • brash,
  • snobbish,
  • presumptuous,
  • ineffective,
  • bumptious,
  • supercilious,
  • stuck-up,
  • snobby,
  • overconfident.
  •
  • empty,
  • brassy,
  • lofty,
  • thankless.
  •
  • loud.
  •discouraging
  • hopeless.
  •Other relevant words:
  • alone,
  • naught,
  • sorry,
  • absurd,
  • exaggerated,
  • sententious,
  • high hat,
  • aimless,
  • doggerel,
  • not worth mentioning,
  • expurgate,
  • wasteful,
  • absolutely,
  • belittling,
  • puffed,
  • entirely,
  • wretched,
  • Self-glorious,
  • braggadocio,
  • discover,
  • idling,
  • feckless,
  • flimsy,
  • fond,
  • priggish,
  • derisive,
  • usually,
  • sincerely,
  • unwarranted,
  • Amplified,
  • speak,
  • groundless,
  • vacuity,
  • purely,
  • inconsequential,
  • Distended,
  • impractical,
  • without basis,
  • counterproductive,
  • totally,
  • unworkable,
  • egotism,
  • inanity,
  • unusable,
  • chimerical,
  • frequently,
  • impart,
  • positively,
  • disclose,
  • ridiculous,
  • swelled-headed,
  • self-opinionated,
  • nothing but,
  • braggart,
  • unsupportable,
  • airy,
  • Vaunting,
  • pontifical,
  • strictly,
  • trashy,
  • professorial,
  • coxcomb,
  • Putid,
  • dandyish,
  • loquacious,
  • scurvy,
  • irrelevant,
  • utterly,
  • pride,
  • pyrrhic,
  • unsustainable,
  • la-de-da,
  • unserviceable,
  • scornful,
  • cheeky,
  • severely,
  • vainly,
  • impracticable,
  • fruitlessly,
  • truly,
  • silly,
  • starkly,
  • non-functioning,
  • trumpery,
  • Narcissine,
  • scour,
  • addle,
  • undirected,
  • blankness,
  • quite,
  • rigorously,
  • doomed,
  • sleeveless,
  • light,
  • lah-di-dah,
  • tumescent,
  • pedagogic,
  • clearly,
  • bookish,
  • feeble,
  • irrational,
  • Fatuitous,
  • beggarly,
  • asinine,
  • etiolated,
  • contemptuous,
  • egomaniacal,
  • self-content,
  • flatulent,
  • swollen,
  • poor,
  • boasting,
  • insipid,
  • trite,
  • nonsensical,
  • vacancy,
  • nonviable,
  • unremunerative,
  • mean,
  • Sheerly,
  • correctly,
  • theatrical,
  • futilely,
  • dandy,
  • costly,
  • unmitigatedly,
  • unavailable,
  • pitiful,
  • ungrounded,
  • Unsustained,
  • chesty,
  • generally,
  • self-absorbed,
  • overproud,
  • tattling,
  • conceit,
  • conceited person,
  • customarily,
  • exhibitionist,
  • potential,
  • imperious,
  • turgid,
  • very,
  • Unpractical,
  • impotent,
  • overbearing,
  • Thrasonical,
  • Fribbling,
  • bloated,
  • self-centred,
  • inadequate,
  • unfertile,
  • Self-complacent,
  • Pedantical,
  • forward,
  • altogether,
  • gimcrack,
  • sanctify,
  • improperly,
  • merely,
  • scavenge,
  • frothy,
  • stuffy,
  • contemptible,
  • Gasconading,
  • purify,
  • self-conceited,
  • vacuous,
  • Fribble,
  • emptiness,
  • slender,
  • hifalutin,
  • rodomontade,
  • donnish,
  • flash,
  • commonly,
  • inoperative,
  • unqualifiedly,
  • putting on airs,
  • clarify,
  • Coxcombical,
  • doctrinaire,
  • arrogance,
  • Self-approving,
  • miserable,
  • fully,
  • virtual,
  • shallow,
  • solely,
  • self-sufficient,
  • unfortunate,
  • overstated,
  • puffy,
  • weedy,
  • purposeless,
  • one-horse,
  • saucy,
  • unfruitful,
  • ambitious,
  • unappreciated,
  • preposterous,
  • toffee-nosed,
  • wash,
  • unsuccessfully,
  • of no moment,
  • chasten,
  • magnified,
  • simply,
  • unacknowledged,
  • thoughtless,
  • effete,
  • uppish,
  • catchpenny,
  • on high horse,
  • thoroughly,
  • overblown,
  • reveal,
  • not binding,
  • narcistic,
  • la-di-da,
  • inefficient,
  • contempt,
  • perfectly,
  • really,
  • stiff,
  • beau,
  • distinctly,
  • infertile,
  • talkative,
  • vapid,
  • cleanly,
  • self-loving,
  • Overdrawn,
  • insubstantial,
  • prig,
  • stupid,
  • just,
  • self-respecting,
  • show-off,
  • bootlessly,
  • self-engrossed,
  • scrubby,
  • complacent,
  • highfalutin,
  • Disinfect,
  • meager,
  • niggardly,
  • wipe,
  • cleanse,
  • pedantic,
  • dry,
  • exclusively,
  • cheap,
  • irreverently,
  • completely,
  • normally,
  • vile,
  • unrequited,
  • disdainful,
  • toff,
  • wholly,
  • inconstant,
  • verbalize,
  • distill,
  • fairly,
  • unsupported,
  • Fanfaron,
  • baseless,
  • flooding,
  • fop,
  • Scrannel,
  • evacuation,
  • preachy,
  • bathe,
  • invalid,
  • null and void,
  • unreal,
  • inefficacy,
  • unsubstantial,
  • refine,
  • magisterial,
  • overflowing,
  • disrespectfully,
  • self-contented,
  • shabby,
  • foredoomed,
  • apparently,
  • foolish,
  • ordinarily,
  • vanity,
  • toplofty,
  • divulge,
  • didactic,
  • inutile,
  • stillborn,
  • diametrically,
  • ill-founded,
  • dude,
  • fatuous,
  • declare,
  • blasphemously,
  • futility,
  • untenable,
  • unpersuasive,
  • vaporing,
  • emptying,
  • of no effect,
  • sisyphean,
  • exactly,
  • snob.

Paraphrases for Vain:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    futile, fruitless.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    pointless, meaningless, unnecessary, conceited, abortive, ineffectual, ineffective, superfluous, worthless, idle, unhelpful, unproductive, inefficient, needless, only, irrelevant, false, foolish, hollow.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    useless, unsuccessful, empty.

Antonyms for Vain:

• adj.

  • egotistical
    modest, humble, possible, shy.
  • futile, useless
    important, consequential, significant, useful.
  • Other antonyms:
    powerful, real, useful, Prized, expedient, worthwhile, shy, valid, practical, Self-reproving, retiring, sheepish, treasured, timid, shrinking, usable, valuable, exceptional, diffident, invaluable, functional, worthy, unassertive, esteemed, advantageous, successful, adequate, fancy, sound, meaningful, choice, bashful, competent, special, deadly, high-grade, solid, beneficial, virtuous, precious, applicable, cherished, introverted, serviceable, substantial, overmodest, mousy, profitable, priceless, sufficient.

Homophones for Vain:

• vein, veyne, vane.