vain

adjective · verbA1

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Tính từ

adjective
Comparative
vainermore vainvainest
Superlative
most vainwayn
  1. 1.

    Overly proud of oneself, especially concerning appearance; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason.

    Đồng nghĩa: conceited, flatulent, puffed up, inflated, airy, arrogant, chesty, authoritarian, biggity, big-headed, blustery, boastful, bombastic, buggish, cocky, conceited, disdainful, domineering, egotistical, entitled, flatulent, flaunting, full of oneself, glorious, grandiose, hankty, haught, haughty, haut, high-handed, high-hat, high and mighty, highfalutin, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, hubristic, hubristical, imperious, inflated, insolent, la-di-da, orgulous, ostentatious, overbearing, overweening, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, priggish, puffed up, sanctimonious, self-important, snobbish, snooty, snotty, stout, stuck up, supercilious, thrasonic, thrasonical, toploftical, toplofty, tumid, turgid, uppish, uppity, uppy, upstage, vain

  2. 2.

    Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying.

    Đồng nghĩa: idle, valueless, base, contemptible, floccinaucinihilipilificatious, foolish, for the birds, futile, frivolous, idle, ignorable, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, indifferent, insignificant, like a fart in a windstorm, meager, mean, minor, miserable, negligible, nothingburger, nondescript, null, paltry, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, piddly, pissant, pissass, piteous, pitiful, pointless, silly, simple, slight, ticky-tacky, tin-pot, trifling, trivial, two-bit, unimportant, unweighty, vain, worthless, wretched, bastardly, blown, cacky, chaffy, cocking, crapalicious, cruddy, cullionly, draffish, draffy, dreckish, drecky, duffing, floccinaucinihilipilificatious, for the birds, fucking, garbagey, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goodless, ineffectual, invaluable, jabberwocky, junky, mouldy, mucid, naughty, no-account, no good / no-good, nonvaluable, not worth a damn, not worth a dime, not worth a plug nickel, not worth a brass farthing, not worth a cent, not worth a cress, not worth a curse, not worth a Continental, not worth a farthing, not worth hell room, not worth a nickel, not worth a penny, not worth salt, not worth a whistle, nought, of no value, pissass, punk, putid, rubbishly, rubbishy, sixpenny, scabbed, screwy, scummy, shand, shit, shitey, shitstained, shitty-ass, sorry-ass, strawlike, suckworthy, tenth-rate, toshy, trinkety, triobolar, tripy, two-bit, unappreciated, unvaluable, vain, valueless, worthless, worth nothing, wutless

  3. 3.

    Effecting no purpose; pointless, futile.

    vain toil    a vain attempt

    Đồng nghĩa: pointless, futile, fruitless, ineffectual, bootless, barren, futile, fruitless, gainless, idle, inane, ineffectual, inefficacious, inutile, no good, otiose, pointless, profitless, purposeless, tired, unavailing, unprofitable, unuseful, unutilizable, useless, vain, void

  4. 4.

    Showy; ostentatious.

    Đồng nghĩa: brash, pizazzy, bedizened, blatant, blingish, brash, campy, catchpenny, chichi, chintzy, corny, crass, crude, flashy, flaunting, florid, flossy, froufrou, garish, gauche, gaudy, gay, glaring, gross, gussied up, hideous, kitsch, kitschy, loud, meretricious, naff, obtrusive, ostentatious, pizazzy, pretentious, ritzy, raffish, schlocky, showy, snazzy, splendiferous, tacky, tasteless, tawdry, tinselly, too much, trinkety, unbecoming, untasteful, vain, whorish, zesty

Động từ

verb
V_es/s
vains
V_ing/Gerund
vaining
V_ed/pp
vainedwayn
  1. 1.

    (dated, obsolete, rare, transitive)To frustrate.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

conceitedflatulentpuffed upinflatedairyarrogantchestyauthoritarianbiggitybig-headedblusteryboastfulbombasticbuggishcockydisdainfuldomineeringegotisticalentitledflaunting

Cùng gốc / liên quan

unvainvainfulin vainRichard of York gave battle in vaintake someone's name in vainvainnessvainlyvanity

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English veyn, from Old French vain, from Latin vānus (empty).

Nguồn dữ liệu: freedict, wiktionary · cập nhật 16/8/2026

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