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1. Oxford Dictionary

   vain

   • IPA[veɪn]

   英式

   • adj.
     having or showing an excessively high opinion of one's appearance, abilities, or worth；producing no result; useless
2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   adj.

   形容詞

   • 1. having or showing an excessively high opinion of one's appearance, abilities, or worth their flattery made him vain a vain woman with a streak of snobbery 同義詞 conceited, narcissistic, self-loving, in love with oneself, self-admiring, ... 更多self-regarding, wrapped up in oneself, self-absorbed, self-obsessed, self-centred, egotistic, egotistical, egoistic, egocentric, egomaniac, proud, haughty, arrogant, boastful, swaggering, imperious, overweening, cocky, affected, literaryvainglorious, rarepeacockish, have an excessively high opinion of oneself, think too highly of oneself, think a lot of oneself, informalthink one is the cat's whiskers/pyjamas, think one is God's gift (to women)反義詞 modest
   • 2. producing no result; useless a vain attempt to tidy up the room the vain hope of finding work 同義詞 futile, useless, pointless, worthless, nugatory, ... 更多to no purpose, in vain, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, impotent, powerless, unavailing, to no avail, fruitless, profitless, unproductive, unsuccessful, failed, without success, abortive, misfired, thwarted, balked, frustrated, foiled, archaicbootless反義詞 successful, productive
   • ▪ having no likelihood of fulfilment; empty a vain boast

   片語

   • in vain
   • take someone's name in vain