Word Meanings - VAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying. "Thy vain excuse." Shak. Every man walketh in a vain show. Ps. xxxix. 6. Let no man deceive you with vain words. Eph. v. 6. Vain pomp, and glory of this world,

Additional info about word: VAIN

1. Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying. "Thy vain excuse." Shak. Every man walketh in a vain show. Ps. xxxix. 6. Let no man deceive you with vain words. Eph. v. 6. Vain pomp, and glory of this world, I hate ye! Shak. Vain visdom all, and false philosophy. Milton. 2. Destitute of forge or efficacy; effecting no purpose; fruitless; ineffectual; as, vain toil; a vain attempt. Bring no more vain oblations. Isa. i. 13. Vain is the force of man To crush the pillars which the pile sustain. Dryden. 3. Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason; conceited; puffed up; inflated. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is barren James ii. 20 . The minstrels played on every side, Vain of their art. Dryden. 4. Showy; ostentatious. Load some vain church with old theatric state. Pope. Syn. -- Empty; worthless; fruitless; ineffectual; idle; unreal; shadowy; showy; ostentatious; light; inconstant; deceitful; delusive; unimportant; trifling.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VAIN)

• Conceited
• Egotistical
• self-conceited
• vain
• Coxcombical
• Vain
• affected
• conceited
• dandified
• pedantic
• priggish
• Feeble
• Wretched
• weak
• poor
• frail
• debilitated
• dull
• forceless
• puny
• nerveless
• enfeebled
• enervated
• faint
• infirm
• incomplete
• fruitless
• scanty
• pitiable
• Futile
• Weak
• ineffective
• useless
• nugatory
• unavailing
• trifling
• Groundless
• supposititious
• unfounded
• baseless
• fanciful
• gratuitous
• chimerical
• false

Related words: (words related to VAIN)

• FAINT
  feint, false, faint, F. feint, p.p. of feindre to feign, suppose, 1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. 2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed;
• FRAILNESS
  Frailty.
• FRAIL
  A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins. 2. The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail. 3. A rush for weaving baskets. Johnson.
• FUTILELY
  In a futile manner.
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• FALSENESS
  The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• ENERVATION
  1. The act of weakening, or reducing strength. 2. The state of being weakened; effeminacy. Bacon.
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• FALSE-FACED
  Hypocritical. Shak.
• NERVELESSNESS
  The state of being nerveless.
• AFFECTIBILITY
  The quality or state of being affectible.
• FRAILTY
  1. The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced. God knows our frailty, pities our weakness. Locke. 2. A fault proceeding from weakness;
• NUGATORY
  1. Trifling; vain; futile; insignificant. 2. Of no force; inoperative; ineffectual. If all are pardoned, and pardoned as a mere act of clemency, the very substance of government is made nugatory. I. Taylor.
• SELF-CONCEIT
  Conceit of one's self; an overweening opinion of one's powers or endowments. Syn. -- See Egotism.
• AFFECTIVELY
  In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
• ENFEEBLISH
  To enfeeble. Holland.
• INCOMPLETE
  Wanting any of the usual floral organs; -- said of a flower. Incomplete equation , an equation some of whose terms are wanting; or one in which the coefficient of some one or more of the powers of the unknown quantity is equal to 0. (more info)
• CHIMERICAL
  Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects. Syn. -- Imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wild; unfounded; vain; deceitful; delusive.
• INEFFECTIVENESS
  Quality of being ineffective.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• TAFFRAIL
  The upper part of a ship's stern, which is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved work; the rail around a ship's stern.
• INAFFECTED
  Unaffected. -- In`af*fect"ed*ly, adv.