VAIN
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vain¹
- /veɪn/ US, UK
- /ven/ Scotland
- /vein/ Wales
Sounds like vein, vane (pane–pain merger) · Rhymes with -eɪn
Where it comes from
From Middle English veyn, from Old French vain, from Latin vānus (“empty”).
adjective vainer · more vain · vainest · most vain · wayn
- Overly proud of oneself, especially concerning appearance; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason. Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
- Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying. I will not hear thy vain excuse
- Effecting no purpose; pointless, futile. vain toil a vain attempt
- Showy; ostentatious. Yet ſhall (my Lord) your juſt, your noble Rules / Fill half the land with imitating Fools: / VVho random dravvings from your ſheets ſhall take, / And of one beauty many blunders make; / Load ſome vain Church with old Theatric State, / Turn Arcs of Triumph to a Garden-gate, […]
Similar: conceited, narcissistic, self-adoring, self-admiring, self-obsessed, vain, vainglorious
vain²
- /veɪn/ US, UK
- /ven/ Scotland
- /vein/ Wales
Sounds like vein, vane (pane–pain merger) · Rhymes with -eɪn
Where it comes from
A conversion of the adjectival form of vain. The only use of this verb in English appears c. 1628 in the writings of Owen Felltham.
verb vains · vaining · vained · wayn
- To frustrate.
VAIN³
noun VAINs
- Acronym of vaginal intraepithelial neoplasia.vaginal intraepithelial neoplasia
