vain

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.

Adjective

• Having an excessively high opinion of oneself or one's appearance.

Examples

• It’s VAIN to assume you’ll win every Scrabble game, no matter your skill level.
• vain toil    a vain attempt

Synonyms

bootless, conceited, egotistic, egotistical, fruitless, futile, self-conceited, sleeveless, swollen, swollen-headed, airy, arrogant, authoritarian, base, bedizened, big-headed, biggity, blatant, blingish, blustery, boastful, bombastic, brash, buggish, catchpenny, chichi, chintzy, cocky, contemptible, crass, crude, disdainful, domineering, entitled, flashy, flatulent, flaunting, florid, flossy, foolish, for the birds, frivolous, froufrou, full of oneself, 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-important, self-obsessed, showy, silly, simple, slight, snazzy, snobbish, snooty, snotty, splendiferous, stout, stuck up, supercilious, 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

Antonyms

modest, nonnarcissistic

Related Words

arrogance, beauty, one-dimensional, shallow, superficial, vanity, VAINLY

Anagrams of vain