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vain 音标拼音: [v'en] a. 徒劳的,徒然的,无效的,空虚的,自负的 徒劳的,徒然的,无效的,空虚的,自负的 vain adj 1: characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self- importance; " a conceited fool"; " an attitude of self- conceited arrogance"; " an egotistical disregard of others"; " so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; " growing ever more swollen- headed and arbitrary"; " vain about her clothes" [ synonym: { conceited}, { egotistic}, { egotistical}, { self- conceited}, { swollen}, { swollen- headed}, { vain}] 2: unproductive of success; " a fruitless search"; " futile years after her artistic peak"; " a sleeveless errand"; " a vain attempt" [ synonym: { bootless}, { fruitless}, { futile}, { sleeveless}, { vain}] Vain \ Vain\ ( v[= a] n), a. [ Compar. { Vainer}; superl. { Vainest}.] [ F. vain, L. vanus empty, void, vain. Cf. { Vanish}, { Vanity}, { Vaunt} to boast.] 1. Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying. " Thy vain excuse." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Every man walketh in a vain show. -- Ps. xxxix. 6. [ 1913 Webster] Let no man deceive you with vain words. -- Eph. v. 6. [ 1913 Webster] Vain pomp, and glory of this world, I hate ye! -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Destitute of force or efficacy; effecting no purpose; fruitless; ineffectual; as, vain toil; a vain attempt. [ 1913 Webster] Bring no more vain oblations. -- Isa. i. 13. [ 1913 Webster] Vain is the force of man To crush the pillars which the pile sustain. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; having a high opinion of one' s own accomplishments with slight reason; conceited; puffed up; inflated. [ 1913 Webster] But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is barren? -- James ii. 20 ( Rev. Ver.). [ 1913 Webster] The minstrels played on every side, Vain of their art. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Showy; ostentatious. [ 1913 Webster] Load some vain church with old theatric state. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Empty; worthless; fruitless; ineffectual; idle; unreal; shadowy; showy; ostentatious; light; inconstant; deceitful; delusive; unimportant; trifling. [ 1913 Webster]
Vain \ Vain\, n. Vanity; emptiness; -- now used only in the phrase { in vain}. [ 1913 Webster] { For vain}. See { In vain}. [ Obs.] -- Shak. { In vain}, to no purpose; without effect; ineffectually. " In vain doth valor bleed." -- Milton. " In vain they do worship me." -- Matt. xv. 9. { To take the name of God in vain}, to use the name of God with levity or profaneness. [ 1913 Webster] 147 Moby Thesaurus words for " vain": Gascon, abortive, absurd, airy, arrogant, asinine, barren, baseless, boastful, boasting, bootless, bootlessly, braggart, bragging, catchpenny, cocky, complacent, conceited, consequential, counterproductive, coxcombical, dandyish, delusive, delusory, doomed, effete, egocentric, egoistic, egotistical, empty, etiolated, fanfaron, fanfaronading, fatuitous, fatuous, feckless, flimsy, foolish, foppish, foredoomed, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy, fruitless, fruitlessly, futile, futilely, gasconading, groundless, haughty, hollow, idle, ill- founded, improperly, in vain, inadequate, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inoperative, invalid, light, misleading, narcissan, narcissine, narcissistic, narcistic, nugacious, nugatory, of no force, otiose, overproud, overweening, paltry, petty, pointless, profitless, proud, puny, self- admiring, self- advertising, self- applauding, self- approving, self- assuming, self- complacent, self- conceited, self- congratulating, self- congratulatory, self- content, self- contented, self- delighting, self- endeared, self- esteeming, self- flattering, self- glorious, self- gratulating, self- gratulatory, self- important, self- lauding, self- loving, self- respecting, self- satisfied, self- sufficient, self- vaunting, shallow, silly, slender, slight, smug, sterile, stuck- up, superficial, thrasonic, thrasonical, trifling, trite, trivial, unavailable, unavailing, unbased, unfounded, ungrounded, unproductive, unprofitable, unsuccessful, unsuccessfully, unsupportable, unsupported, unsustainable, unsustained, untenable, unwarranted, useless, vacuous, vainglorious, vainly, valueless, vapid, vaporing, vaunting, void, windy, without basis, without foundation, worthless |
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