Definition of vain in English Turkish dictionary
- {s} beyhude
- {s} faydasız
- {s} nafile
O bütün gece çalışmayı denedi, ama nafile.
-He tried to study all night, but in vain.
O sigarayı bırakmaya çalıştı ama nafile.
-He tried to give up smoking but in vain.
- {s} kendini beğenmiş
Kendini diğerleriyle karşılaştırırsan, kendini beğenmiş ya da umudu kırık olabilirsin; her zaman için kendinden daha büyük ya da daha küçük insanlar olacaktır.
-If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
- {s} about/of ile çok övünen
- {s} anlamsız
- {s} boş
Ben onunla boşuna dost kalmaya çalıştım.
-I tried to keep in with her in vain.
Ağlamamak için boş yere çabaladı.
-She tried in vain not to cry.
- {s} kibirli
Sence Tom kibirli mi?
-Do you think Tom is vain?
- sonuçsuz
- ham
- boşuna
Dick o problemi çözmek için boşuna çalıştı.
-Dick tried in vain to solve that problem.
John sorunu çözmek için boşuna uğraştı.
-John tried in vain to solve the problem.
- {s} kendi görünüşünü çok beğenen; kibirli, kendini beğenmiş, mağrur
- {s} boş, nafile: a vain hope boş umut
- özünü beğenmiş
- yararsız
- {s} gururlu
- {s} abes
- gurur
Onun boş gururu cumhuriyeti tehlikeye attı.
-His vainglory put the Republic at risk.
- verimsiz
- neticesiz
- in vain
- boşuna
Dick o problemi çözmek için boşuna çalıştı.
-Dick tried to solve the problem, in vain.
John sorunu çözmek için boşuna uğraştı.
-John tried in vain to solve the problem.
- vain hope
- (deyim) boş ümit
- vain hope
- (deyim) boş hayal
- vain of
- ile böbürlenen
- vain of
- -ile çok övünen
- vain of
- le böbürlenen
- vain hope
- boşuna umut
- vain of
- in boşuna
- vain-ness
- boşuna-ness
- vain about
- … ile çok övünen
- vain of
- -le böbürlenen
- vain promise
- boş söz
- ruin oneself in vain
- kendini harap etmek
- vainly
- beyhude yere
- wait in vain
- ayazlamak
- in vain
- boş yere
Boş yere tanığa rüşvet vermeye yeltendiler.
-They attempted in vain to bribe the witness.
Tom Mary'yi sanat okuluna gitmesi için boş yere ikna etmeye çalıştı.
-Tom tried in vain to convince Mary to go to art school.
- vainly
- boşuna
- vainly
- nafile
- vainness
- yararsızlık
- vainness
- boşluk
- vainness
- kibirlilik
- adopting a vain conceited posture
- Bir boşuna kibirli duruşu benimseyen
- as vain as a peacock
- ekin iti gibi (kibirli, burnu havada)
- conceited, vain, vainglorious
- Kibirli, mağrur mağrur
- futilely, in vain
- futilely, boşuna
- try in vain
- yararsız
- die in vain
- pisi pisine ölmek
- died in vain
- pisi pisine gitti
- died in vain
- pisi pisine öldü
- vainly
- kibirle
- vainness
- {i} gurur
- vainness
- {i} kibir
- vainness
- {i} boşunalık
- waste time in vain
- boşa zaman harcamak
Related Terms
Definition of vain in English English dictionary
- effecting no purpose; pointless, futile
It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.
- having very little substance
- overly proud of oneself, especially when concerning appearance
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
- Vanity; emptiness; now used only in the phrase in vain
- {a} conceited, proud, fruitless, ineffectual
- 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
- Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying
- pointless, futile
- disapproval If you describe someone as vain, you are critical of their extreme pride in their own beauty, intelligence, or other good qualities. I think he is shallow, vain and untrustworthy
- characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes"
- If you do something in vain, you do not succeed in achieving what you intend. He stopped at the door, waiting in vain for her to acknowledge his presence
- If you say that something such as someone's death, suffering, or effort was in vain, you mean that it was useless because it did not achieve anything. He wants the world to know his son did not die in vain
- {s} conceited, proud, egotistical; worthless, futile; without meaning or significance
- If you describe a hope that something will happen as a vain hope, you mean that there is no chance of it happening. He married his fourth wife, Susan, in the vain hope that she would improve his health. + vainly vain·ly He then set out for Virginia for what he vainly hoped would be a peaceful retirement
- Destitute of forge or efficacy; effecting no purpose; fruitless; ineffectual; as, vain toil; a vain attempt
- A vain attempt or action is one that fails to achieve what was intended. The drafting committee worked through the night in a vain attempt to finish on schedule = fruitless + vainly vain·ly He hunted vainly through his pockets for a piece of paper
- unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt"
- vain endeavors
- useless efforts, attempt that produces no results
- vain hope
- false hope, dream that has no hope of being fulfilled, illusion
- vain idea
- futile idea, idea that cannot be put to successful use
- vain promises
- assurance which can not be depended on, deceit
- Richard of York gave battle in vain
- A mnemonic phrase to help remember the order of the seven colours of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet
- in vain
- Without success; ending in failure
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain.
- in vain
- In a disrespectful manner, especially when concerning religion
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain.
- vain.
- flatulent
- vainly
- In a vain manner; to no avail
- vainly
- {a} without effect, proudly, foolsihly
- vainness
- {n} the state of being vain, vanity
- his efforts were in vain
- he did not succeed, he failed, his efforts were pointless
- in vain
- to no avail; "he looked for her in vain"; "the city fathers tried vainly to find a solution"
- in vain
- all for nothing
- take a name in vain
- use a name disrespectfully or without proper reason, use a name in a situation where it is not warranted (usually God's name)
- take in vain
- use a name, such as God, without proper respect
- vainly
- to no avail; "he looked for her in vain"; "the city fathers tried vainly to find a solution"
- vainly
- to no avail; "he looked for her in vain"; "the city fathers tried vainly to find a solution
- vainly
- in a vain manner; futilely, uselessly; conceitedly
- vainly
- In a vain manner;to no avail
- vainly
- In a vain manner; in vain
- vainness
- The property of being vain
- vainness
- {i} absence of worth or meaning; conceit; futility
- vainness
- The quality or state of being vain
- waited in vain
- waited for nothing, waited but did not receive any results
- was in vain
- was useless, failed utterly
Related Terms
Turkish pronunciation
veynSynonyms
pointless, futile, fruitless, ineffectual, arrogant, big-headed, boastful, cocky, conceited, egocentric, egoistic, haughty, high-and-mighty, inflated, narcissisticPronunciation
Etymology
() From Middle English Old French vain Latin vānus (“empty”)Resimler
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