English English Dictionary

vain in English:

1. unproductive of success

English word "vain"(unproductive of success) occurs in sets:

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2. vain

Fashion-conscious people are usually vain and selfish.

in vain

But, knowing precisely sadness and love and death, and that they are vain images when we observe them from the calm space where we should shut ourselves in, he kept on weeping, and desiring love, and fearing death.

I think John is quite selfish, and a little bit vain. He isn't easy to get on with.

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.

His vain efforts to seduce her showed he was barking up the wrong tree; she was a mother of two tots.

Give up, give up your vain pursuit!

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

We have worked hard and I would like to think that our work will not be in vain.

I think you’d have to be really vain to spend ages in a photo booth.

this vainglorious boast of personal infallibility

Dennis is very concerned about his appearance. He spends long hours shopping, trying clothes on and choosing shoes. He visits a beautician regulary and has installed huge mirrors in each room of his house. He's vain.

She was young handsome vain and giddy and completely the slave of fashion.

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them.

3. vanity

Her vanity knows no bounds.

Laughter is the only cure against vanity, and vanity is the only laughable fault.

She has begun to play tennis not so much out of curiosity as out of vanity.

A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

She's always looking at herself in the mirror - What vanity.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.

His letter hurt Jane's vanity.

It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

There is, perhaps, not one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as vanity.

He said it was vanity to force other men to our religion.

He wants the job purely for reasons of vanity and ambition.

She described her accomplishments without exaggeration or vanity

No doubt the idea appealed to his vanity.

How many men are there that wear a coat that cost a hundred francs, and carry a diamond in the head of their cane, and dine for twenty-five SOUS for all that! It seems as though we could never pay enough for the pleasures of vanity.

English word "vain"(vanity) occurs in sets:

making nouns from adjectives

4. loving themselves too much

English word "vain"(loving themselves too much) occurs in sets:

Moja pierwsza lekcja

5. too proud of their appearance

6. in

I live in Warsaw.

Half a million children still face malnutrition in Niger.

Back in high school, I got up at 6 a.m. every morning.

Poverty does more to bring out the worst in people and conceal the best than anything else in the world.

Kissing one's spouse in public is considered acceptable behavior in some countries.

In the United States, it takes a minimum of eight years of college to become a medical doctor.

Water, in its natural state, is a fluid.

An estimated 20% of the water used by homeowners in cities is used for their grass.

What you spend time doing in your childhood affects the rest of your life.

The inland taipan, a snake found in Australia, is the most venomous snake in the world.

In North America, business operates on "the customer is always right" principle.

I'm the type who gets nervous in front of people, so I'm bad at speech making.

Please make your reservation one week in advance.

If I should be suddenly spoken to in English, I might run away.

The Democrats haven't decided on their candidates yet, but in any case they're sure to lose.

7. spends half of the day in front of the mirror

8. in vain

We tried to do this several times, but it was all in vain.

Don't cry in vain.

Don't speak God's name in vain!

The doctors tried to save the dying man but in vain. How can you say that our soldiers died in vain?!

I tried in vain to start a conversation

I WISH but it's all in vain

I feel like i'm trying to learn my husband english in vain

I tried to convince the other board members, but my efforts were in vain, and they outvoted me.

The doctors tried to save the dying man but in vain

We tried to solve the problem, in vain

I cried and cried in vain. Nobody would have heard me anyway as the walls were soundproof.

The family's complaints were in vain.

that wasn't in vain

They tried to persuade her to join the race but in vain. She stuck to her guns and kept saying no.

Let it not be in vain. / Don't be using God's name in vain.

English word "vain"(in vain) occurs in sets:

wyrażenie przyimkowe

9. too interested in your own appearance or achievements

10. selfish

He's really selfish.

The judge told him: "Your attitude shows a selfish disregard for others."

It was selfish of him to leave all the work to you.

It was to say that going to the station was too much of a bother after all so I should come to the hotel she's staying at. Good grief, what a selfish woman!

Truth is pure, but truth is painful. No sane, selfish person would ever accept things for what they are. Such is the masochism inherent in "truth".

He's completely convinced of his own greatness but to the people around him he's just a selfish jerk.

I think John is quite selfish, and a little bit vain. He isn't easy to get on with.

She doesn't pay attention to others; in other words, she is selfish.

Her family considers suicide to be dishonorable and selfish.

However, his girlfriend is selfish and hardly worries about Brian.

You shouldn't indulge that child. It will make him very selfish.

Everyone was just a little bit selfish, each in his own way.

Now they think I'm a selfish guy who wanted all these things.

I realised how selfish I was. / You're selfish, that's your trouble.

Am I that selfish or he's just too naive?