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Vain
VAIN, a. [L. vanus; Eng. wan, wane, want.]
1. Empty; worthless; having no substance, value or importance. 1 Pet 1.
To your vain answer will you have recourse.
Every man walketh in a vain show. Psa 39.
Why do the people imagine a vain thing? Psa 2.
2. Fruitless; ineffectual. All attempts, all efforts were vain.
Vain is the force of man.
3. Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; elated with a high opinion of one's own accomplishments, or with things more showy than valuable; conceited.
The minstrels play'd on every side, vain of their art -
4. Empty; unreal; as a vain chimers.
5. Showy; ostentatious.
Load some vain church with old theatric state.
6. Light; inconstant; worthless. Prov 12.
7. Empty; unsatisfying. The pleasures of life are vain.
8. False; deceitful; not genuine; spurious. James 1.
9. Not effectual; having no efficacy
Bring no more vain oblations. Isa 1.
In vain, to no purpose; without effect; ineffectual.
In vain they do worship me. Mat 15.
To take the name of God in vain, to use the name of God with levity or profaneness.
vain appears in definitions for these words:
Addiction Airy Bloat Boteless Braggardism Braggart Bubble Chimera Chimerical Chimerically Cockscomb Conceit Conceited Console Contend Coquet Coquette Cord Court Coxcomb Coxcomical Crack Custom Distill Dote Draw Dream Dreamer Enthusiasm Erect Evanescence Evanid Evanish Fable Fanfaron Fanfaronade Fangled Favor Felon Flatulent Fleshly Flimsy Foil Foolish Fop Foppery Foppish Foppishly Frisk Frothy Fruitless Fruitlessly Fruitlessness Frustraneous Frustrate Frustrated Frustrating Fume Glory Guiltless Hell Help Hold Hypocrite Idle Idly Ignoramus Ineffectually Inutility Invulnerability Jactitation Joy Least Light Macaronic Make Mask Mockery Mountebankery Name New-fangledness Nugatory Oblation Obtrude Ostentation Ostentatious Ostentatiously Ostentatiousness Ostentator Overweening Parley Pedant Pedantic Pedantically Pedantry Perverse Phantasm Philosophy Pomp Poor Presumptuously Profane Profaneness Rather Ridiculously Rodomont Rodomontade Sacrifice Scarecrow Self-cenceited Self-glorious Shelter Since Stomach Storm Swear Sword Take Tantalize Teach Throw Toast Toy Triumph Tumorous Unavailable Unavailing Unfounded Unprevailing Utterly V Vain Vainglorious Vainglory Vainly Vainness Van Vanish Vanity Vapor Vaporing Vaporous Variable Vaunt Vaunted Vaunter Vauntful Vaunting Vauntingly Vignette Void Wrought You
Addiction Airy Bloat Boteless Braggardism Braggart Bubble Chimera Chimerical Chimerically Cockscomb Conceit Conceited Console Contend Coquet Coquette Cord Court Coxcomb Coxcomical Crack Custom Distill Dote Draw Dream Dreamer Enthusiasm Erect Evanescence Evanid Evanish Fable Fanfaron Fanfaronade Fangled Favor Felon Flatulent Fleshly Flimsy Foil Foolish Fop Foppery Foppish Foppishly Frisk Frothy Fruitless Fruitlessly Fruitlessness Frustraneous Frustrate Frustrated Frustrating Fume Glory Guiltless Hell Help Hold Hypocrite Idle Idly Ignoramus Ineffectually Inutility Invulnerability Jactitation Joy Least Light Macaronic Make Mask Mockery Mountebankery Name New-fangledness Nugatory Oblation Obtrude Ostentation Ostentatious Ostentatiously Ostentatiousness Ostentator Overweening Parley Pedant Pedantic Pedantically Pedantry Perverse Phantasm Philosophy Pomp Poor Presumptuously Profane Profaneness Rather Ridiculously Rodomont Rodomontade Sacrifice Scarecrow Self-cenceited Self-glorious Shelter Since Stomach Storm Swear Sword Take Tantalize Teach Throw Toast Toy Triumph Tumorous Unavailable Unavailing Unfounded Unprevailing Utterly V Vain Vainglorious Vainglory Vainly Vainness Van Vanish Vanity Vapor Vaporing Vaporous Variable Vaunt Vaunted Vaunter Vauntful Vaunting Vauntingly Vignette Void Wrought You
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