Definition for Vain:

• Empty; unreal; ineffectual; fruitless.

Synonyms for Vain:

• adj.

  •abortive (adjective)
  • more miscarried,
  • more failed,
  • most failed,
  • un productive,
  • mis-carried,
  • failed,
  • un-productive,
  • most miscarried,
  • mis carried.
  •arrogant (adjective)
  • more cold-shoulder,
  • more bragging,
  • more know it all,
  • more cold shoulder,
  • snootiest,
  • smartier,
  • in-solent,
  • in solent,
  • most swaggering,
  • smartiest,
  • more swaggering,
  • over bearing,
  • high handed,
  • most cold shoulder,
  • most know-it-all,
  • sniffier,
  • more know-it-all,
  • insolent,
  • sniffiest,
  • most coldshoulder,
  • Over-bearing,
  • most cold-shoulder,
  • pre sumptuous,
  • most biggety,
  • pre-sumptuous,
  • know it all,
  • high-handed,
  • more coldshoulder,
  • high mighty,
  • pretentious,
  • most know it all,
  • most bragging,
  • peremptory,
  • more biggety.
  •barren (adjective)
  • profitless,
  • un inspiring,
  • most unrewarding,
  • more uninspiring,
  • most profitless,
  • un rewarding,
  • un-inspiring,
  • more unrewarding,
  • un-rewarding,
  • more profitless,
  • most uninspiring.
  •boastful (adjective)
  • bombastic,
  • fat-headed,
  • windy,
  • conceited,
  • inflated,
  • self-applauding,
  • self-praising,
  • haughty,
  • boastful,
  • bragging,
  • self-important.
  •cocky (adjective)
  • most hotdogger,
  • more hotdogger.
  •cocky/cocksure (adjective)
  • most swollenheaded,
  • more hotshot,
  • more hotdogging,
  • most hotshot,
  • self confident,
  • more swollen-headed,
  • most swollen-headed,
  • hubristic,
  • selfconfident,
  • swollen-headed,
  • most hubristic,
  • most swollen headed,
  • more swollenheaded,
  • more hubristic,
  • swollen headed,
  • most hotdogging,
  • over confident,
  • swollenheaded,
  • smarty pants,
  • more swollen headed.
  •conceited (adjective)
  • more conceity,
  • full hot air,
  • smartalecky,
  • most loudmouth,
  • hamer,
  • gallest,
  • more loudmouth,
  • more windbag,
  • hamest,
  • most conceity,
  • most windbag,
  • big talking.
  •desperate (adjective)
  • up creek,
  • more no-way,
  • no win,
  • more goner,
  • in-consolable,
  • more no way,
  • in soup,
  • at end one's rope,
  • more no-win,
  • back to wall,
  • back wall,
  • back the wall,
  • more no-chance,
  • most no chance,
  • most irrecoverable,
  • in toilet,
  • more nowin,
  • most no-win,
  • no-chance,
  • most no way,
  • cant win,
  • more irretrievable,
  • in consolable,
  • most nochance,
  • most noway,
  • nowin,
  • most no-chance,
  • most irretrievable,
  • more irrecoverable,
  • more desponding,
  • more noway,
  • more sunk,
  • more nochance,
  • at end of one rope,
  • more no chance,
  • most goner,
  • more no win,
  • at end rope,
  • most sunk,
  • at end ones rope,
  • running out time,
  • at end of ones rope,
  • most desponding,
  • at end one rope,
  • most no win,
  • most nowin,
  • nochance,
  • most no-way.
  •egomaniacal (adjective)
  • egomaniacal.
  •egotistic (adjective)
  • in-born,
  • in-grained,
  • in born.
  •egotistic/egoistic (adjective)
  • more self admiring,
  • more selfadmiring,
  • selfabsorbed,
  • more inner-directed,
  • selfcentered,
  • selfadmiring,
  • individualistic,
  • more self-admiring,
  • inner-directed,
  • most obsessive,
  • obsessive,
  • most inner-directed,
  • personal,
  • self admiring,
  • opinionated,
  • most selfadmiring,
  • most inner directed,
  • inner directed,
  • most self admiring,
  • most self-admiring,
  • more boasting,
  • most boasting,
  • self-centered,
  • more obsessive,
  • innerdirected,
  • more innerdirected,
  • more inner directed,
  • self absorbed,
  • stuck oneself,
  • most innerdirected,
  • self centered.
  •egotistical (adjective)
  • overweening,
  • pleased with oneself,
  • ostentatious,
  • egocentric,
  • swaggering,
  • high-and-mighty,
  • puffed up.
  •empty (adjective)
  • in sipid,
  • in sincerest,
  • in-sincere,
  • de-void,
  • in-expressive,
  • in expressive,
  • un substantial,
  • in-sincerer,
  • un-substantial,
  • dis honest,
  • trivial,
  • insincere,
  • un intelligent,
  • de void,
  • un real,
  • in sincerer,
  • in-sincerest,
  • dis-honest,
  • un satisfactory,
  • in sincere,
  • un-intelligent,
  • in-sipid,
  • un-satisfactory,
  • un-real.
  •failing (adjective)
  • unsuccessful,
  • Unsufficient,
  • Unthriving,
  • unprosperous,
  • fainter,
  • insufficient.
  •foppish (adjective)
  • more dandified,
  • most dandified,
  • dandified.
  •forlorn (adjective)
  • de-pressed,
  • de-stroyed,
  • de solate,
  • helpless,
  • be-reft,
  • forgotten,
  • in the dumps,
  • un happier,
  • un-happy,
  • de stroyed,
  • un happy,
  • un happiest,
  • de-solate,
  • in dumps,
  • down out,
  • de pressed,
  • be reft.
  •fruitless (adjective)
  • spinning one wheels,
  • most gainless,
  • more gainless,
  • un prolific,
  • wild goose chase,
  • spinning wheels,
  • un-available,
  • in fertile,
  • un available,
  • spinning ones wheels,
  • more unprolific,
  • in-fertile,
  • un-prolific,
  • un-fruitful,
  • un fruitful,
  • most unprolific.
  •fustian (adjective)
  • Flaunting,
  • portentous.
  •futile (adjective)
  • more impracticable,
  • un important,
  • save ones breath,
  • most resultless,
  • save breath,
  • un needed,
  • un-important,
  • out window,
  • un-needed,
  • more resultless,
  • save one breath.
  •futile, useless (adjective)
  • senseless,
  • paltry,
  • slight,
  • delusive,
  • sterile,
  • shuck,
  • insignificant,
  • worthless,
  • not a prayer,
  • valueless,
  • unimportant,
  • frivolous,
  • petty,
  • delusory,
  • puny,
  • misleading,
  • time-wasting,
  • unproductive,
  • trifling,
  • unnotable,
  • going nowhere.
  •highfalutin (adjective)
  • highfalutin,
  • puffy,
  • grandiose.
  •hopeless (adjective)
  • unachievable,
  • irremediable,
  • unmitigable,
  • in despair,
  • shot down,
  • desperate,
  • past hope,
  • beyond recall,
  • irredeemable.
  •idle (adjective)
  • more unhelpful,
  • un-helpful,
  • idler,
  • most unhelpful,
  • un necessary,
  • in-significant,
  • un helpful,
  • in significant,
  • irrelevant,
  • un-necessary.
  •ostentatious (adjective)
  • gaudy,
  • histrionic,
  • highfaluting,
  • formal,
  • uptown,
  • tinsel,
  • affected,
  • grandiloquent,
  • flagrant,
  • sensational,
  • blatant,
  • ornate,
  • dramatic,
  • stilted,
  • dashing,
  • snazzy,
  • opulent,
  • flamboyant,
  • shameless,
  • showy,
  • flourishing,
  • jaunty,
  • exhibitionistic,
  • garish,
  • flashy,
  • fussy,
  • forced,
  • splashy,
  • peacocky,
  • rakish,
  • glittery.
  •otiose (adjective)
  • sur plusser,
  • sur plussest,
  • sur-plusser,
  • sur-plussest,
  • most laggard,
  • in-active.
  •overweening (adjective)
  • highhanded.
  •pointless (adjective)
  • needle haystack,
  • re-mote,
  • most nongermane,
  • around circles,
  • non germane,
  • more nongermane,
  • un interesting.
  •pompous (adjective)
  • highflown,
  • high flown,
  • over blown,
  • over-blown.
  •prideful (adjective)
  • on one's high horse,
  • on high horse.
  •proud (adjective)
  • confident,
  • self-respecting,
  • hoity-toity,
  • smug,
  • Preening,
  • more dismissive,
  • condescending,
  • self-glorying,
  • assured,
  • crowing,
  • swellheaded,
  • dismissive,
  • huffy,
  • grand.
  •puffed-up (adjective)
  • puffedup.
  •self-important (adjective)
  • selfimportant,
  • self important.
  •self-involved (adjective)
  • selfinvolved,
  • wrapped in oneself,
  • wrapped oneself,
  • wrapped up oneself,
  • self involved,
  • wrapped up in oneself.
  •self-respecting (adjective)
  • selfrespecting,
  • self respecting.
  •self-satisfied (adjective)
  • full oneself,
  • self congratulatory,
  • most selfcongratulatory,
  • more self-congratulatory,
  • most self congratulatory,
  • self satisfied,
  • selfcongratulatory,
  • more selfcongratulatory,
  • selfsatisfied,
  • more self congratulatory,
  • most self-congratulatory.
  •self-seeking (adjective)
  • selfseeking,
  • self seeking.
  •self-serving (adjective)
  • selfserving,
  • self serving.
  •selfish (adjective)
  • hoggish,
  • greedy,
  • selfish,
  • self-occupied.
  •shallow (adjective)
  • uncritical,
  • emptyheaded,
  • shallow,
  • frothy,
  • shallower.
  •specious (adjective)
  • most sophistical,
  • most beguiling,
  • more casuistic,
  • un-sound,
  • un-truest,
  • un sounder,
  • un-sounder,
  • in accurate,
  • un truer,
  • un sound,
  • more sophistical,
  • in correct,
  • un-truer,
  • un-soundest,
  • un truest,
  • most casuistic.
  •sterile (adjective)
  • more germ-free,
  • anti septic,
  • un infected,
  • more uninfected,
  • de-sert,
  • most disinfected,
  • most decontaminated,
  • most germ-free,
  • anti-septic,
  • more decontaminated,
  • de sert,
  • wastest,
  • more germ free,
  • without issue,
  • dis infected,
  • more germfree,
  • in-fecund,
  • un-infected,
  • in fecund,
  • most pasteurized,
  • most germ free,
  • more septic,
  • de-contaminated,
  • de contaminated,
  • more pasteurized,
  • dis-infected,
  • more disinfected,
  • most germfree,
  • most septic,
  • germ free,
  • most infecund,
  • more infecund,
  • most uninfected.
  •straitlaced (adjective)
  • priggish.
  •stuck-up (adjective)
  • more big-headed,
  • most big-headed,
  • hoitytoity,
  • too big for one's britches,
  • big headed,
  • stuck up,
  • too big for one britches,
  • too big for ones britches,
  • nose the air,
  • more big headed,
  • nose in air,
  • nose air,
  • most big headed,
  • too big for britches,
  • stuckup,
  • hoity toity,
  • nose in the air.
  •thankless (adjective)
  • un requited,
  • dis tasteful,
  • dis agreeable,
  • most unreturned,
  • un-grateful,
  • more unrecognized,
  • un recognized,
  • unreturned,
  • un-pleasant,
  • ungrateful,
  • un grateful,
  • un pleasant,
  • more unreturned,
  • dis-agreeable,
  • un-recognized,
  • most unrecognized,
  • un returned,
  • un-returned,
  • un-requited,
  • dis-tasteful.
  •trifling (adjective)
  • in-considerable,
  • most loitering,
  • in considerable,
  • idling,
  • more loitering,
  • forget it,
  • no big thing.
  •unavailing (adjective)
  • un-availing,
  • un availing.
  •uncreative (adjective)
  • un inspired,
  • un original,
  • un-creative,
  • un-inspired,
  • un-original,
  • un creative,
  • un-imaginative,
  • un imaginative.
  •unfounded (adjective)
  • unproven,
  • Foundationless,
  • without basis,
  • without foundation,
  • off-base,
  • mendacious.
  •unprofitable (adjective)
  • frustaneous,
  • unlucrative,
  • unremunerative.
  •unsuccessful (adjective)
  • losing,
  • ineffectual,
  • thwarted,
  • bungled,
  • disastrous,
  • foiled,
  • counterproductive,
  • botched,
  • frustrated.
  •unusable (adjective)
  • un-usable,
  • un usable.
  •uppity (adjective)
  • up pity,
  • up-pity,
  • high falutin.
  •useless (adjective)
  • unusable,
  • non-functional,
  • inutile,
  • of no use,
  • no good,
  • unfunctional,
  • counter-productive,
  • scrapper,
  • nonfunctional,
  • unusuable.
  •vain (adjective)
  • self-flattering,
  • superficial.
  •vainglorious (adjective)
  • more strutting,
  • Strutting,
  • most high-and-mighty,
  • most strutting.
  •void (adjective)
  • most voided,
  • more negated,
  • more avoided,
  • most negated,
  • un enforceable,
  • more unratified,
  • most unratified,
  • Voided,
  • un ratified,
  • unconfirmed,
  • most unconfirmed,
  • most unenforceable,
  • more voided,
  • more unconfirmed,
  • un-confirmed,
  • most avoided,
  • un confirmed,
  • un-enforceable,
  • un-ratified,
  • more unenforceable.

• n.

  •
  • superior,
  • immodest.
  •
  • thrive,
  • used,
  • barren.
  •
  • hollow,
  • vacant,
  • full.
  •
  • self-love.
  •bootless (noun)
  • bootless.
  •cocky (noun)
  • cocky.
  •self-conceited (noun)
  • self-conceited.
  •sleeveless (noun)
  • sleeveless.
  •swollen (noun)
  • swollen.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • presumptuous,
  • self-appointed,
  • snobbish,
  • lordly,
  • bumptious,
  • brash,
  • self-righteous,
  • snobby,
  • overconfident,
  • snooty,
  • holier-than-thou,
  • stuck-up,
  • ineffective,
  • patronizing,
  • sanctimonious,
  • impossible,
  • supercilious,
  • big-headed,
  • snotty.
  •
  • importantly,
  • thankless,
  • empty,
  • brassy,
  • lofty.
  •
  • loud.
  •
  • arch.
  •discouraging
  • hopeless.
  •profitless
  • nonproductive.

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:
    Prized, practical, valuable, high-grade, fancy, mousy, exceptional, bashful, precious, competent, deadly, choice, powerful, sound, shrinking, expedient, real, timid, virtuous, special, diffident, invaluable, esteemed, treasured, unassertive, worthy, successful, solid, introverted, functional, profitable, retiring, priceless, adequate, meaningful, sheepish, overmodest, cherished, valid, beneficial, Self-reproving, advantageous, serviceable, applicable, substantial, usable, worthwhile, sufficient.

Vain Sentence Examples:

• But now it was seen that all these years of suffering had not been in vain.

• What she heard I cannot tell; nor could she ever tell In words; because all human words are vain.

Homophones for Vain:

• vein, veyne, vane.