What is another word for vain?
1119 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ vˈe͡ɪn], [ vˈeɪn], [ v_ˈeɪ_n]
Vain is a word that often refers to someone who is excessively obsessed with themselves, their appearance, or their accomplishments. Some synonyms for vain include conceited, narcissistic, egotistical, self-centered, and self-absorbed. Other possible synonyms are arrogant, haughty, proud and snobbish. These words imply a lack of humility and a tendency to prioritize oneself over others. Vain may also be similar to words like superficial, shallow, and materialistic, which suggest a focus on outward appearances rather than substance. However, it is important to note that some words may have nuances in meaning that make them more appropriate in certain contexts than others.
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Similar words for vain:
- boastful (adjective)
- failing (adjective)
- foppish (adjective)
- hopeless (adjective)
- meaningless (adjective)
- ostentatious (adjective)
- overweening (adjective)
- prideful (adjective)
- proud (adjective)
- self-involved (adjective)
- selfish (adjective)
- shallow (adjective)
- stuck-up (adjective)
- unfounded (adjective)
- unprofitable (adjective)
- unsuccessful (adjective)
- uppity (adjective)
- useless (adjective)
- vain (adjective)
- abortive (adjective)
- arrogant (adjective)
- barren (adjective)
- cocky (adjective)
- cocky/cocksure (adjective)
- conceited (adjective)
- desperate (adjective)
- egotistic (adjective)
- egotistic/egoistic (adjective)
- egotistical (adjective)
- empty (adjective)
- forlorn (adjective)
- fruitless (adjective)
- fustian (adjective)
- futile (adjective)
- idle (adjective)
- inane (adjective)
- ineffective (adjective)
- ineffective/ineffectual (adjective)
- ineffectual (adjective)
- inefficacious (adjective)
- inutile (adjective)
- narcissistic (adjective)
- null (adjective)
- otiose (adjective)
- pointless (adjective)
- pompous (adjective)
- puffed-up (adjective)
- self-important (adjective)
- self-respecting (adjective)
- self-satisfied (adjective)
- self-seeking (adjective)
- self-serving (adjective)
- specious (adjective)
- sterile (adjective)
- thankless (adjective)
- trifling (adjective)
- unavailing (adjective)
- uncreative (adjective)
- unusable (adjective)
- vainglorious (adjective)
- void (adjective)
Synonyms for Vain:
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adj.
• boastful- boastful ,
- bombastic ,
- bragging ,
- conceited ,
- fat-headed ,
- haughty ,
- inflated ,
- pretentious ,
- self-applauding ,
- self-important ,
- self-praising ,
- windy .
- Flaunting ,
- affected ,
- blatant ,
- dashing ,
- dramatic ,
- exhibitionistic ,
- flagrant ,
- flamboyant ,
- flashy ,
- flourishing ,
- forced ,
- formal ,
- fussy ,
- garish ,
- gaudy ,
- glittery ,
- grandiloquent ,
- grandiose ,
- highfaluting ,
- histrionic ,
- jaunty ,
- opulent ,
- ornate ,
- ostentatious ,
- peacocky ,
- rakish ,
- sensational ,
- shameless ,
- showy ,
- snazzy ,
- splashy ,
- stilted ,
- tinsel ,
- uptown .
- Preening ,
- assured ,
- cocky ,
- condescending ,
- confident ,
- crowing ,
- dismissive ,
- grand ,
- high-and-mighty ,
- high-handed ,
- hoity-toity ,
- huffy ,
- more dismissive ,
- self-glorying ,
- smug ,
- swellheaded .
- wrapped up in oneself ,
- self involved ,
- selfinvolved ,
- wrapped in oneself ,
- wrapped oneself ,
- wrapped up oneself .
- nose in the air ,
- stuck up ,
- too big for one's britches ,
- big headed ,
- hoity toity ,
- hoitytoity ,
- more big headed ,
- more big-headed ,
- most big headed ,
- most big-headed ,
- nose air ,
- nose in air ,
- nose the air ,
- stuckup ,
- too big for britches ,
- too big for one britches ,
- too big for ones britches .
- counter-productive ,
- no good ,
- non-functional ,
- nonfunctional ,
- of no use ,
- scrapper ,
- unfunctional ,
- unusuable .
- mis carried ,
- mis-carried ,
- more failed ,
- more miscarried ,
- most failed ,
- most miscarried ,
- un productive ,
- un-productive .
- Over-bearing ,
- high handed ,
- high mighty ,
- in solent ,
- in-solent ,
- insolent ,
- know it all ,
- more biggety ,
- more bragging ,
- more cold shoulder ,
- more cold-shoulder ,
- more coldshoulder ,
- more know it all ,
- more know-it-all ,
- more swaggering ,
- most biggety ,
- most bragging ,
- most cold shoulder ,
- most cold-shoulder ,
- most coldshoulder ,
- most know it all ,
- most know-it-all ,
- most swaggering ,
- over bearing ,
- peremptory ,
- pre sumptuous ,
- pre-sumptuous ,
- smartier ,
- smartiest ,
- sniffier ,
- sniffiest ,
- snootiest .
- more profitless ,
- more uninspiring ,
- more unrewarding ,
- most profitless ,
- most uninspiring ,
- most unrewarding ,
- un inspiring ,
- un rewarding ,
- un-inspiring ,
- un-rewarding .
- hubristic ,
- more hotdogging ,
- more hotshot ,
- more hubristic ,
- more swollen headed ,
- more swollen-headed ,
- more swollenheaded ,
- most hotdogging ,
- most hotshot ,
- most hubristic ,
- most swollen headed ,
- most swollen-headed ,
- most swollenheaded ,
- over confident ,
- self confident ,
- selfconfident ,
- smarty pants ,
- swollen headed ,
- swollenheaded .
- big talking ,
- full hot air ,
- gallest ,
- hamer ,
- hamest ,
- more conceity ,
- more loudmouth ,
- more windbag ,
- most conceity ,
- most loudmouth ,
- most windbag ,
- smartalecky .
- at end of one rope ,
- at end of ones rope ,
- at end one rope ,
- at end one's rope ,
- at end ones rope ,
- at end rope ,
- back the wall ,
- back to wall ,
- back wall ,
- cant win ,
- in consolable ,
- in soup ,
- in toilet ,
- in-consolable ,
- more desponding ,
- more goner ,
- more irrecoverable ,
- more irretrievable ,
- more no chance ,
- more no way ,
- more no win ,
- more no-chance ,
- more no-way ,
- more no-win ,
- more nochance ,
- more noway ,
- more nowin ,
- more sunk ,
- most desponding ,
- most goner ,
- most irrecoverable ,
- most irretrievable ,
- most no chance ,
- most no way ,
- most no win ,
- most no-chance ,
- most no-way ,
- most no-win ,
- most nochance ,
- most noway ,
- most nowin ,
- most sunk ,
- no win ,
- no-chance ,
- nochance ,
- nowin ,
- running out time ,
- up creek .
- individualistic ,
- inner directed ,
- inner-directed ,
- innerdirected ,
- more boasting ,
- more inner directed ,
- more inner-directed ,
- more innerdirected ,
- more obsessive ,
- more self admiring ,
- more self-admiring ,
- more selfadmiring ,
- most boasting ,
- most inner directed ,
- most inner-directed ,
- most innerdirected ,
- most obsessive ,
- most self admiring ,
- most self-admiring ,
- most selfadmiring ,
- obsessive ,
- opinionated ,
- personal ,
- self absorbed ,
- self admiring ,
- self centered ,
- selfabsorbed ,
- selfadmiring ,
- selfcentered ,
- stuck oneself .
- de void ,
- de-void ,
- dis honest ,
- dis-honest ,
- in expressive ,
- in sincere ,
- in sincerer ,
- in sincerest ,
- in sipid ,
- in-expressive ,
- in-sincere ,
- in-sincerer ,
- in-sincerest ,
- in-sipid ,
- insincere ,
- un intelligent ,
- un real ,
- un satisfactory ,
- un substantial ,
- un-intelligent ,
- un-real ,
- un-satisfactory ,
- un-substantial .
- be reft ,
- be-reft ,
- de pressed ,
- de solate ,
- de stroyed ,
- de-pressed ,
- de-solate ,
- de-stroyed ,
- down out ,
- forgotten ,
- helpless ,
- in dumps ,
- in the dumps ,
- un happier ,
- un happiest ,
- un happy ,
- un-happy .
- in fertile ,
- in-fertile ,
- more gainless ,
- more unprolific ,
- most gainless ,
- most unprolific ,
- spinning one wheels ,
- spinning ones wheels ,
- spinning wheels ,
- un available ,
- un fruitful ,
- un prolific ,
- un-available ,
- un-fruitful ,
- un-prolific ,
- wild goose chase .
- more impracticable ,
- more resultless ,
- most resultless ,
- out window ,
- save breath ,
- save one breath ,
- save ones breath ,
- un important ,
- un needed ,
- un-important ,
- un-needed .
- idler ,
- in significant ,
- in-significant ,
- more unhelpful ,
- most unhelpful ,
- un helpful ,
- un necessary ,
- un-helpful ,
- un-necessary .
- in effective ,
- in-effective ,
- more emasculate ,
- more slack spined ,
- more slack-spined ,
- more slackspined ,
- most emasculate ,
- most slack spined ,
- most slack-spined ,
- most slackspined ,
- slack spined ,
- slack-spined ,
- slackspined .
- anti climactic ,
- anti-climactic ,
- de feasible ,
- de-feasible ,
- in competent ,
- in decisive ,
- in efficient ,
- in operative ,
- in vertebrate ,
- in-competent ,
- in-decisive ,
- in-efficient ,
- in-operative ,
- in-vertebrate ,
- invertebrate ,
- more anticlimactic ,
- more defeasible ,
- more forceless ,
- more ineffective ,
- more invertebrate ,
- more neutralized ,
- most anticlimactic ,
- most defeasible ,
- most forceless ,
- most invertebrate ,
- most neutralized ,
- null void ,
- un abler ,
- un ablest ,
- un-abler ,
- un-ablest .
- more self loving ,
- more self-loving ,
- more selfloving ,
- most self loving ,
- most self-loving ,
- most selfloving ,
- self loving ,
- selfloving .
- in valid ,
- in-valid ,
- more unsanctioned ,
- most characterless ,
- most unsanctioned ,
- non existent ,
- un sanctioned ,
- un-sanctioned .
- around circles ,
- more nongermane ,
- most nongermane ,
- needle haystack ,
- non germane ,
- re-mote ,
- un interesting .
- full oneself ,
- more self congratulatory ,
- more self-congratulatory ,
- more selfcongratulatory ,
- most self congratulatory ,
- most self-congratulatory ,
- most selfcongratulatory ,
- self congratulatory ,
- self satisfied ,
- selfcongratulatory ,
- selfsatisfied .
- in accurate ,
- in correct ,
- more casuistic ,
- more sophistical ,
- most beguiling ,
- most casuistic ,
- most sophistical ,
- un sound ,
- un sounder ,
- un truer ,
- un truest ,
- un-sound ,
- un-sounder ,
- un-soundest ,
- un-truer ,
- un-truest .
- anti septic ,
- anti-septic ,
- de contaminated ,
- de sert ,
- de-contaminated ,
- de-sert ,
- dis infected ,
- dis-infected ,
- germ free ,
- in fecund ,
- in-fecund ,
- more decontaminated ,
- more disinfected ,
- more germ free ,
- more germ-free ,
- more germfree ,
- more infecund ,
- more pasteurized ,
- more septic ,
- more uninfected ,
- most decontaminated ,
- most disinfected ,
- most germ free ,
- most germ-free ,
- most germfree ,
- most infecund ,
- most pasteurized ,
- most septic ,
- most uninfected ,
- un infected ,
- un-infected ,
- wastest ,
- without issue .
- dis agreeable ,
- dis tasteful ,
- dis-agreeable ,
- dis-tasteful ,
- more unrecognized ,
- more unreturned ,
- most unrecognized ,
- most unreturned ,
- un grateful ,
- un pleasant ,
- un recognized ,
- un requited ,
- un returned ,
- un-grateful ,
- un-pleasant ,
- un-recognized ,
- un-requited ,
- un-returned ,
- ungrateful ,
- unreturned .
Other synonyms:
- big-headed ,
- bigheaded ,
- brash ,
- bumptious ,
- cocksure ,
- holier-than-thou ,
- impossible ,
- ineffective ,
- lordly ,
- overconfident ,
- patronizing ,
- presumptuous ,
- puffed-up ,
- sanctimonious ,
- self-appointed ,
- self-congratulatory ,
- self-righteous ,
- sniffy ,
- snobbish ,
- snobby ,
- snooty ,
- snotty ,
- stuck-up ,
- supercilious ,
- uppity ,
- void .
- egoistical ,
- loud .
- superior .
- vacant .
Other relevant words:
- Amplified ,
- Coxcombical ,
- Disinfect ,
- Distended ,
- Fanfaron ,
- Fatuitous ,
- Fribble ,
- Fribbling ,
- Gasconading ,
- Narcissine ,
- Overdrawn ,
- Pedantical ,
- Putid ,
- Scrannel ,
- Self-approving ,
- Self-complacent ,
- Self-glorious ,
- Sheerly ,
- Thrasonical ,
- Unpractical ,
- Unsustained ,
- Vaunting ,
- absolutely ,
- absurd ,
- addle ,
- aimless ,
- airy ,
- alone ,
- altogether ,
- ambitious ,
- apparently ,
- arrogance ,
- asinine ,
- baseless ,
- bathe ,
- beau ,
- beggarly ,
- belittling ,
- beneath notice ,
- blankness ,
- blasphemously ,
- bloated ,
- boasting ,
- bookish ,
- bootless ,
- bootlessly ,
- braggadocio ,
- braggart ,
- catchpenny ,
- chasten ,
- cheap ,
- cheeky ,
- chesty ,
- chimerical ,
- clarify ,
- cleanly ,
- cleanse ,
- clearly ,
- commonly ,
- complacent ,
- completely ,
- conceit ,
- conceited person ,
- contempt ,
- contemptible ,
- contemptuous ,
- correctly ,
- costly ,
- counterproductive ,
- coxcomb ,
- customarily ,
- dandy ,
- dandyish ,
- declare ,
- delusive ,
- delusory ,
- derisive ,
- desperate ,
- diametrically ,
- didactic ,
- disclose ,
- discover ,
- disdainful ,
- disrespectfully ,
- distill ,
- distinctly ,
- divulge ,
- doctrinaire ,
- doggerel ,
- donnish ,
- doomed ,
- dry ,
- dude ,
- effete ,
- egomaniacal ,
- egotism ,
- egotistical ,
- emptiness ,
- emptying ,
- entirely ,
- etiolated ,
- evacuation ,
- exactly ,
- exaggerated ,
- exclusively ,
- exhibitionist ,
- expurgate ,
- fairly ,
- fatuous ,
- feckless ,
- feeble ,
- flash ,
- flatulent ,
- flimsy ,
- flooding ,
- fond ,
- foolish ,
- fop ,
- foredoomed ,
- forlorn ,
- forward ,
- frequently ,
- frivolous ,
- frothy ,
- fruitlessly ,
- fully ,
- fustian ,
- futilely ,
- futility ,
- generally ,
- gimcrack ,
- going nowhere ,
- groundless ,
- hifalutin ,
- high hat ,
- highfalutin ,
- idling ,
- ill-founded ,
- impart ,
- imperious ,
- impotent ,
- impracticable ,
- impractical ,
- improperly ,
- in vain ,
- in vicious circle ,
- inadequate ,
- inane ,
- inanity ,
- inconsequential ,
- inconstant ,
- inefficacious ,
- inefficacy ,
- inefficient ,
- infertile ,
- inoperative ,
- insignificant ,
- insipid ,
- insubstantial ,
- insufficient ,
- inutile ,
- invalid ,
- irrational ,
- irrelevant ,
- irremediable ,
- irreverently ,
- just ,
- la-de-da ,
- la-di-da ,
- lah-di-dah ,
- light ,
- loquacious ,
- magisterial ,
- magnified ,
- meager ,
- mean ,
- meaningless ,
- merely ,
- miserable ,
- misleading ,
- narcistic ,
- naught ,
- niggardly ,
- no-win ,
- non-functioning ,
- nonsensical ,
- nonviable ,
- normally ,
- not a prayer ,
- not binding ,
- not worth mentioning ,
- nothing but ,
- nugatory ,
- null ,
- null and void ,
- of no avail ,
- of no effect ,
- of no moment ,
- on a treadmill ,
- on high horse ,
- one-horse ,
- ordinarily ,
- otiose ,
- overbearing ,
- overblown ,
- overflowing ,
- overproud ,
- overstated ,
- overweening ,
- paltry ,
- pedagogic ,
- pedantic ,
- perfectly ,
- petty ,
- pitiful ,
- pleased with oneself ,
- pontifical ,
- poor ,
- positively ,
- potential ,
- preachy ,
- preposterous ,
- pride ,
- prideful ,
- prig ,
- priggish ,
- professorial ,
- profitless ,
- puffed ,
- puffy ,
- puny ,
- purely ,
- purify ,
- purposeless ,
- putting on airs ,
- pyrrhic ,
- quite ,
- really ,
- refine ,
- reveal ,
- ridiculous ,
- rigorously ,
- rodomontade ,
- sanctify ,
- saucy ,
- scavenge ,
- scornful ,
- scour ,
- scrubby ,
- scurvy ,
- self-absorbed ,
- self-centred ,
- self-conceited ,
- self-content ,
- self-contented ,
- self-engrossed ,
- self-involved ,
- self-loving ,
- self-opinionated ,
- self-respecting ,
- self-sufficient ,
- senseless ,
- sententious ,
- severely ,
- shabby ,
- shallow ,
- show-off ,
- shuck ,
- silly ,
- simply ,
- sincerely ,
- sisyphean ,
- sleeveless ,
- slender ,
- slight ,
- snob ,
- solely ,
- sorry ,
- speak ,
- specious ,
- starkly ,
- sterile ,
- stiff ,
- stillborn ,
- strictly ,
- stuffy ,
- stupid ,
- swaggering ,
- swelled-headed ,
- swollen ,
- swollen-headed ,
- talkative ,
- tattling ,
- theatrical ,
- thoroughly ,
- thoughtless ,
- time-wasting ,
- to no avail ,
- toff ,
- toffee-nosed ,
- toplofty ,
- totally ,
- trashy ,
- trifling ,
- trite ,
- trivial ,
- truly ,
- trumpery ,
- tumescent ,
- turgid ,
- unacknowledged ,
- unappreciated ,
- unavailable ,
- unavailing ,
- uncreative ,
- undirected ,
- unenforceable ,
- unfertile ,
- unfortunate ,
- unfounded ,
- unfruitful ,
- ungrounded ,
- unimportant ,
- uninventive ,
- unmitigatedly ,
- unnotable ,
- unpersuasive ,
- unproductive ,
- unprofitable ,
- unqualifiedly ,
- unreal ,
- unremunerative ,
- unrequited ,
- unrewarding ,
- unserviceable ,
- unsubstantial ,
- unsuccessfully ,
- unsupportable ,
- unsupported ,
- unsustainable ,
- untenable ,
- unusable ,
- unwarranted ,
- unworkable ,
- uppish ,
- usually ,
- utterly ,
- vacancy ,
- vacuity ,
- vacuous ,
- vainly ,
- valueless ,
- vanity ,
- vapid ,
- vaporing ,
- verbalize ,
- very ,
- vile ,
- virtual ,
- wash ,
- wasteful ,
- weedy ,
- wholly ,
- wipe ,
- without basis ,
- worthless ,
- wretched .
- Gainless ,
- Infecund ,
- Non-existent ,
- Noway ,
- Resultless ,
- abortive ,
- anticlimactic ,
- apparently right ,
- around in circles ,
- arrogant ,
- at end of one's rope ,
- at end of rope ,
- back to the wall ,
- biggety ,
- can't win ,
- casuistic ,
- characterless ,
- cold-shoulder ,
- coldshoulder ,
- conceity ,
- dead duck ,
- defeasible ,
- down and out ,
- egoistic ,
- egotistic ,
- failing ,
- foppish ,
- forceless ,
- fruitless ,
- full of hot air ,
- full of oneself ,
- futile ,
- galler ,
- germ-free ,
- germfree ,
- goner ,
- hot stuff ,
- hotdogger ,
- hotdogging ,
- hotshot ,
- in the soup ,
- in the toilet ,
- irrecoverable ,
- irretrievable ,
- loudmouth ,
- narcissistic ,
- needle in haystack ,
- no avail ,
- no big deal ,
- no chance ,
- no dice ,
- no effect ,
- no go ,
- no purpose ,
- no way ,
- no-way ,
- non-germane ,
- nongermane ,
- not effective ,
- not pertinent ,
- not serious ,
- not viable ,
- not worth it ,
- on an ego trip ,
- on ego trip ,
- on treadmill ,
- out the window ,
- over-confident ,
- pasteurized ,
- pointless ,
- pompous ,
- proud ,
- running out of time ,
- sanitized ,
- save one's breath ,
- self-admiring ,
- self-satisfied ,
- self-seeking ,
- self-serving ,
- septic ,
- smart alecky ,
- smart guy ,
- sophistical ,
- spinning one's wheels ,
- stuck on oneself ,
- to no effect ,
- to no purpose ,
- unhelpful ,
- uninfected ,
- uninspiring ,
- unprolific ,
- unratified ,
- unrecognized ,
- unsanctioned ,
- up against it ,
- up the creek ,
- useless ,
- vainglorious .
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How to use "Vain" in context?
Vain is often mistaken as being a positive adjective. However, this is not always the case. Vain people are often those who place too much emphasis on their own appearance and abilities. They may also be vain in their thoughts and emotions. Being vain can have a negative impact on self-esteem and can create feelings of inadequacy.
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Equivalence
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Independent
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Adjective
abortive, conceited, false, foolish, hollow, idle, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficient, irrelevant, meaningless, needless, only, pointless, superfluous, unhelpful, unnecessary, unproductive, worthless.
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empty, unsuccessful, useless.
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not paid for
- Synonyms:
- unpaid.
