vain
vain is a 4-letter English word with 7 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- superlative. Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying.
- superlative. Destitute of forge or efficacy; effecting no purpose; fruitless; ineffectual; as, vain toil; a vain attempt.
- superlative. Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason; conceited; puffed up; inflated.
- superlative. Showy; ostentatious.
- noun. Vanity; emptiness; -- now used only in the phrase in vain.
- adjective. unproductive of success
"a fruitless search"
"futile years after her artistic peak"
- adjective. characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
"a conceited fool"
"an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"
Synonyms
bootless, fruitless, futile, sleeveless, conceited, egotistic, egotistical, swollen
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in vain:
Common word forms
vainer, vainly, vainest, vainful, vainness
Words from these letters
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