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vain
Synonyms and Antonyms of vain
- a man so vain that he spent hours admiring himself in the mirror
assured, biggety (or biggity) [Southern & Midland], bigheaded, complacent, conceited, consequential, egoistic (also egoistical), egotistic (or egotistical), important, overweening, pompous, prideful, proud, self-conceited, self-important, self-opinionated, self-satisfied, smug, stuck-up, swellheaded, vainglorious
blusterous, blustery, boastful, bombastic, braggart, bragging, braggy, cocky, swaggering
arrogant, assumptive, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, disdainful, fastuous, haughty, high-and-mighty, high-hat, huffy, lofty, lordly, masterful, peremptory, pontifical, self-asserting, self-assertive, snobbish, snobby, snooty, supercilious, superior, toplofty (also toploftical), uppish, uppity
domineering, high-handed, imperious
highfalutin (also hifalutin), holier-than-thou, pretentious
overconfident, presuming, presumptuous
confident, self-assured, self-confident
self-adulatory, self-congratulatory, self-contented, self-gratulatory
self-applauding, self-dramatizing, self-glorifying, self-promoting
- all their efforts to escape proved vain
- having tired of the vain pleasures of life in the fast lane, he returned to the small town he had grown up in
base, cheap, cheapjack, duff [British], inferior, lousy, low-grade, second-rate
bad, defective, dud, flawed, imperfect, substandard, unsatisfactory
Synonym Discussion of vain
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- resistance had proved so futile that surrender was the only choice left
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- a vain attempt to get the car started
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- fruitless efforts to obtain a lasting peace
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