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Definition of Vain
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Vain
Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying. Destitute of forge or efficacy; effecting no purpose; fruitless; ineffectual; as, vain toil; a vain attempt. Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason; conceited; puffed up; inflated. Showy; ostentatious. Vanity; emptiness; -- now used only in the phrase in vain. Related Definitions:
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Vain Quotations
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual. Jeremy Bentham No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. Thomas Carlyle On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. Friedrich Nietzsche There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. Henry David Thoreau How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. Henry David Thoreau |
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Vain Translations
vain in Afrikaans is vrugteloos vain in Dutch is vergeefs, ijdel, nutteloos vain in Finnish is turha vain in French is vain, vaniteux vain in German is eitel, vergeblich, vergeblich, Eitel vain in Italian is vano vain in Latin is inanis, irritus, leviculus vain in Spanish is vano |
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