What is another word for vain?
1119 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ vˈe͡ɪn], [ vˈeɪn], [ v_ˈeɪ_n]Table of Contents
Similar words for vain:- abortive (adjective)
- arrogant (adjective)
- barren (adjective)
- boastful (adjective)
- cocky (adjective)
- cocky/cocksure (adjective)
- conceited (adjective)
- desperate (adjective)
- egomaniacal (adjective)
- egotistic (adjective)
- egotistic/egoistic (adjective)
- egotistical (adjective)
- empty (adjective)
- failing (adjective)
- foppish (adjective)
- forlorn (adjective)
- fruitless (adjective)
- fustian (adjective)
- futile (adjective)
- futile, useless (adjective)
- highfalutin (adjective)
- hopeless (adjective)
- idle (adjective)
- inane (adjective)
- ineffective (adjective)
- ineffective/ineffectual (adjective)
- ineffectual (adjective)
- inefficacious (adjective)
- inutile (adjective)
- meaningless (adjective)
- narcissistic (adjective)
- null (adjective)
- ostentatious (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- otiose (adjective)
- overweening (adjective)
- pointless (adjective)
- pompous (adjective)
- prideful (adjective)
- proud (adjective)
- puffed-up (adjective)
- self-important (adjective)
- self-involved (adjective)
- self-respecting (adjective)
- self-satisfied (adjective)
- self-seeking (adjective)
- self-serving (adjective)
- selfish (adjective)
- shallow (adjective)
- specious (adjective)
- sterile (adjective)
- stuck-up (adjective)
- thankless (adjective)
- trifling (adjective)
- unavailing (adjective)
- uncreative (adjective)
- unfounded (adjective)
- unprofitable (adjective)
- unsuccessful (adjective)
- unusable (adjective)
- uppity (adjective)
- useless (adjective)
- vain (adjective)
- vainglorious (adjective)
- void (adjective)
- bootless (noun)
- cocky (noun)
- other synonyms
- discouraging
- profitless
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Vain:
adj.
•abortive (adjective)- more miscarried,
- more failed,
- most failed,
- un productive,
- mis-carried,
- failed,
- un-productive,
- most miscarried,
- mis carried.
- 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.
- profitless,
- un inspiring,
- most unrewarding,
- more uninspiring,
- most profitless,
- un rewarding,
- un-inspiring,
- more unrewarding,
- un-rewarding,
- more profitless,
- most uninspiring.
- bombastic,
- fat-headed,
- windy,
- conceited,
- inflated,
- self-applauding,
- self-praising,
- haughty,
- boastful,
- bragging,
- self-important.
- 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.
- more conceity,
- full hot air,
- smartalecky,
- most loudmouth,
- hamer,
- gallest,
- more loudmouth,
- more windbag,
- hamest,
- most conceity,
- most windbag,
- big talking.
- 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.
- 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.
- overweening,
- pleased with oneself,
- ostentatious,
- egocentric,
- swaggering,
- high-and-mighty,
- puffed up.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- more impracticable,
- un important,
- save ones breath,
- most resultless,
- save breath,
- un needed,
- un-important,
- out window,
- un-needed,
- more resultless,
- save one breath.
- 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.
- unachievable,
- irremediable,
- unmitigable,
- in despair,
- shot down,
- desperate,
- past hope,
- beyond recall,
- irredeemable.
- more unhelpful,
- un-helpful,
- idler,
- most unhelpful,
- un necessary,
- in-significant,
- un helpful,
- in significant,
- irrelevant,
- un-necessary.
- more slackspined,
- slackspined,
- more slack spined,
- most slack spined,
- most slack-spined,
- most slackspined,
- in-effective,
- more slack-spined,
- slack spined,
- slack-spined,
- in effective,
- most emasculate,
- more emasculate.
- in-efficient,
- inefficient,
- un abler,
- more forceless,
- de feasible,
- more invertebrate,
- more ineffective,
- most anticlimactic,
- invertebrate,
- in vertebrate,
- anti climactic,
- un-abler,
- in-decisive,
- un-ablest,
- de-feasible,
- in-operative,
- in operative,
- un ablest,
- in efficient,
- most invertebrate,
- more neutralized,
- more defeasible,
- anti-climactic,
- null and void,
- more anticlimactic,
- in competent,
- in-competent,
- most defeasible,
- most neutralized,
- in decisive,
- most forceless,
- in-vertebrate,
- null void.
- more selfloving,
- more self-loving,
- most self loving,
- most selfloving,
- selfloving,
- self-loving,
- self loving,
- most self-loving,
- more self loving.
- more unsanctioned,
- most characterless,
- most unsanctioned,
- un sanctioned,
- un-sanctioned,
- in valid,
- non existent,
- in-valid.
- 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.
- egoistical,
- useless,
- in the soup,
- uninventive,
- on treadmill,
- unavailing,
- uncreative,
- arrogant,
- hot stuff,
- full of hot air,
- hotdogging,
- self-involved,
- idle,
- smart alecky,
- failing,
- specious,
- conceity,
- sniffy,
- over-confident,
- unrewarding,
- on an ego trip,
- prideful,
- no purpose,
- forceless,
- abortive,
- Noway,
- back to the wall,
- galler,
- null,
- no-way,
- dead duck,
- sophistical,
- no way,
- pointless,
- in vain,
- on ego trip,
- down and out,
- up the creek,
- pasteurized,
- puffed-up,
- defeasible,
- to no purpose,
- casuistic,
- void,
- sanitized,
- germfree,
- spinning one's wheels,
- fruitless,
- not pertinent,
- to no effect,
- coldshoulder,
- vainglorious,
- egotistical,
- no avail,
- unfounded,
- in the toilet,
- hotshot,
- at end of rope,
- unrecognized,
- cold-shoulder,
- not effective,
- to no avail,
- self-satisfied,
- bigheaded,
- loudmouth,
- egoistic,
- around in circles,
- fustian,
- nugatory,
- foppish,
- irrecoverable,
- anticlimactic,
- inefficacious,
- proud,
- no dice,
- goner,
- non-germane,
- not worth it,
- characterless,
- cocksure,
- can't win,
- at end of one's rope,
- no-win,
- futile,
- hotdogger,
- no effect,
- Non-existent,
- irretrievable,
- forlorn,
- egotistic,
- Resultless,
- no big deal,
- no chance,
- pompous,
- self-seeking,
- uppity,
- up against it,
- not viable,
- unratified,
- save one's breath,
- unprofitable,
- biggety,
- self-congratulatory,
- not serious,
- no go,
- Gainless,
- septic,
- unprolific,
- Infecund,
- inane,
- running out of time,
- of no avail,
- unsanctioned,
- unhelpful,
- stuck on oneself,
- on a treadmill,
- full of oneself,
- out the window,
- narcissistic,
- uninfected,
- self-admiring,
- otiose,
- uninspiring,
- unenforceable,
- germ-free,
- needle in haystack,
- smart guy,
- self-serving,
- in vicious circle,
- nongermane,
- apparently right.
- needle haystack,
- re-mote,
- most nongermane,
- around circles,
- non germane,
- more nongermane,
- un interesting.
- hoity-toity,
- more dismissive,
- crowing,
- smug,
- Preening,
- self-glorying,
- condescending,
- grand,
- swellheaded,
- dismissive,
- assured,
- huffy,
- confident.
- selfinvolved,
- wrapped in oneself,
- wrapped oneself,
- wrapped up oneself,
- self involved,
- wrapped up in oneself.
- full oneself,
- self congratulatory,
- most selfcongratulatory,
- more self-congratulatory,
- most self congratulatory,
- self satisfied,
- selfcongratulatory,
- more selfcongratulatory,
- selfsatisfied,
- more self congratulatory,
- most self-congratulatory.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- un inspired,
- un original,
- un-creative,
- un-inspired,
- un-original,
- un creative,
- un-imaginative,
- un imaginative.
n.
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- self-love.
Other synonyms:
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- 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.
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- importantly,
- thankless,
- empty,
- brassy,
- lofty.
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- loud.
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- arch.
- beau,
- meager,
- cleanse,
- unworkable,
- saucy,
- unsupportable,
- bloated,
- vapid,
- futilely,
- chesty,
- bathe,
- evacuation,
- inefficacy,
- inoperative,
- miserable,
- severely,
- unappreciated,
- flatulent,
- wasteful,
- ill-founded,
- loquacious,
- dry,
- chimerical,
- pontifical,
- scurvy,
- very,
- stuffy,
- entirely,
- swelled-headed,
- braggadocio,
- trite,
- unsuccessfully,
- refine,
- imperious,
- contempt,
- insipid,
- diametrically,
- aimless,
- exhibitionist,
- thoroughly,
- exaggerated,
- altogether,
- feckless,
- overbearing,
- high hat,
- addle,
- complacent,
- inconstant,
- inadequate,
- strictly,
- Unsustained,
- customarily,
- shabby,
- solely,
- conceited person,
- blasphemously,
- foolish,
- Distended,
- vacuous,
- stiff,
- improperly,
- scrubby,
- prig,
- boasting,
- didactic,
- pride,
- theatrical,
- pitiful,
- dandy,
- verbalize,
- unremunerative,
- bootlessly,
- ungrounded,
- effete,
- disclose,
- potential,
- unqualifiedly,
- sanctify,
- virtual,
- not binding,
- self-engrossed,
- completely,
- forward,
- Self-glorious,
- baseless,
- uppish,
- unusable,
- apparently,
- inanity,
- emptiness,
- contemptible,
- sleeveless,
- merely,
- light,
- preposterous,
- self-content,
- fairly,
- inconsequential,
- absurd,
- self-absorbed,
- priggish,
- not worth mentioning,
- Fribble,
- Scrannel,
- quite,
- Fribbling,
- starkly,
- asinine,
- cleanly,
- discover,
- wash,
- toffee-nosed,
- sisyphean,
- clarify,
- scour,
- alone,
- doctrinaire,
- ambitious,
- flash,
- toplofty,
- show-off,
- vacuity,
- rodomontade,
- counterproductive,
- rigorously,
- simply,
- sorry,
- overflowing,
- self-respecting,
- fruitlessly,
- coxcomb,
- arrogance,
- expurgate,
- purposeless,
- clearly,
- pyrrhic,
- fop,
- unrequited,
- braggart,
- irrational,
- disdainful,
- unsubstantial,
- self-opinionated,
- stillborn,
- chasten,
- of no moment,
- speak,
- non-functioning,
- unfruitful,
- weedy,
- airy,
- impracticable,
- derisive,
- really,
- belittling,
- ridiculous,
- ordinarily,
- vaporing,
- unfertile,
- tumescent,
- vanity,
- pedagogic,
- distinctly,
- swollen,
- cheeky,
- generally,
- Amplified,
- wipe,
- of no effect,
- self-conceited,
- putting on airs,
- trashy,
- untenable,
- donnish,
- divulge,
- naught,
- Overdrawn,
- on high horse,
- conceit,
- vile,
- usually,
- Narcissine,
- purely,
- flimsy,
- trumpery,
- Self-approving,
- bookish,
- truly,
- turgid,
- totally,
- thoughtless,
- perfectly,
- pedantic,
- Sheerly,
- one-horse,
- niggardly,
- inutile,
- snob,
- la-de-da,
- self-centred,
- Disinfect,
- egotism,
- magnified,
- tattling,
- overblown,
- unsupported,
- frequently,
- Fatuitous,
- undirected,
- unfortunate,
- contemptuous,
- beggarly,
- correctly,
- self-sufficient,
- overstated,
- Thrasonical,
- vainly,
- shallow,
- professorial,
- nothing but,
- Coxcombical,
- talkative,
- doomed,
- gimcrack,
- etiolated,
- stupid,
- puffed,
- invalid,
- feeble,
- absolutely,
- toff,
- narcistic,
- scavenge,
- costly,
- unpersuasive,
- unacknowledged,
- unwarranted,
- nonviable,
- impart,
- irreverently,
- exclusively,
- disrespectfully,
- just,
- unavailable,
- scornful,
- Fanfaron,
- Vaunting,
- doggerel,
- purify,
- la-di-da,
- insubstantial,
- magisterial,
- fond,
- reveal,
- commonly,
- idling,
- Unpractical,
- unserviceable,
- hifalutin,
- self-contented,
- distill,
- normally,
- frothy,
- without basis,
- flooding,
- lah-di-dah,
- Gasconading,
- slender,
- fatuous,
- declare,
- impotent,
- sincerely,
- exactly,
- silly,
- unreal,
- impractical,
- dude,
- groundless,
- unmitigatedly,
- positively,
- Pedantical,
- emptying,
- dandyish,
- nonsensical,
- Self-complacent,
- blankness,
- mean,
- beneath notice,
- fully,
- infertile,
- sententious,
- wholly,
- cheap,
- Putid,
- futility,
- unsustainable,
- vacancy,
- catchpenny,
- poor,
- wretched,
- foredoomed,
- utterly,
- preachy,
- overproud.
Paraphrases for Vain:
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Equivalence
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Independent
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Adjective
pointless, meaningless, unnecessary, conceited, abortive, ineffectual, ineffective, superfluous, worthless, idle, unhelpful, unproductive, inefficient, needless, only, irrelevant, false, foolish, hollow.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
useless, unsuccessful, empty.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Vain:
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adj.
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futile, useless
important, consequential, significant, useful.
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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.
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futile, useless