Definition of VAIN

vain

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

  • characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
    • "vain about her clothes"
  • unproductive of success
    • "a vain attempt"

Adj

  • Overly proud of oneself, especially concerning appearance; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason.
  • Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying.
  • Effecting no purpose; pointless, futile.
  • Showy; ostentatious.

Verb

  • To frustrate.

Origin / Etymology

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

Synonyms

airy, arrogant, authoritarian, base, bedizened, big-headed, biggity, blatant, blingish, blustery, boastful, bombastic, bootless, brash, buggish, catchpenny, chichi, chintzy, cocky, conceited, contemptible, crass, crude, disdainful, domineering, egotistic, egotistical, entitled, flashy, flatulent, flaunting, florid, flossy, foolish, for the birds, frivolous, froufrou, fruitless, full of oneself, futile, gainless, garish, gauche, gaudy, gay, glaring, grandiose, gross, gussied up, hankty, haught, haughty, haut, hideous, high and mighty, high-handed, high-hat, highfalutin, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, idle, ignorable, immaterial, imperious, inane, inconsequential, inconsiderable, indifferent, ineffectual, inefficacious, inflated, insignificant, insolent, inutile, kitschy, la-di-da, like a fart in a windstorm, loud, meager, mean, meretricious, minor, narcissistic, negligible, nondescript, nothingburger, obtrusive, ostentatious, overbearing, overweening, paltry, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddly, pissant, pitiful, pizazzy, pointless, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, priggish, profitless, puffed up, purposeless, raffish, ritzy, sanctimonious, self-admiring, self-adoring, self-conceited, self-important, self-obsessed, showy, silly, simple, sleeveless, slight, snazzy, snobbish, snooty, snotty, splendiferous, stout, stuck up, supercilious, swollen, swollen-headed, tacky, tasteless, tawdry, thrasonic, thrasonical, tin-pot, tinselly, too much, toploftical, toplofty, trifling, trivial, tumid, turgid, two-bit, unavailing, unbecoming, unimportant, unprofitable, untasteful, unuseful, unutilizable, unweighty, uppish, uppity, uppy, upstage, useless, vain, vainglorious, void, whorish, worthless, wretched, zesty

Scrabble Score: 7

vain is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
vain is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
vain is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

vain is a valid Words With Friends word