Definition of vain

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Vain (superl.) Showy; ostentatious.

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Rodomont :: Rodomont (n.) A vain or blustering boaster; a braggart; a braggadocio.
Dreamer :: Dreamer (n.) A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer..
Chimerical :: Chimerical (a.) Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects..
Fanfaronade :: Fanfaronade (n.) A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster.
Rodomont :: Rodomont (a.) Bragging; vainly boasting.
Pedantry :: Pedantry (n.) The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning..
Verbena :: Verbena (n.) A genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain.
Chimerically :: Chimerically (adv.) Wildy; vainly; fancifully.
Frustrate :: Frustrate (a.) Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.
Would-be :: Would-be (a.) Desiring or professing to be; vainly pretending to be; as, a would-be poet..
Vaunt :: Vaunt (v. i.) To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag..
Bloat :: Bloat (v. t.) To inflate; to puff up; to make vain.
Daydream :: Daydream (n.) A vain fancy speculation; a reverie; a castle in the air; unfounded hope.
Boast :: Boast (v. t.) To display vaingloriously.
Vain :: Vain (superl.) Destitute of forge or efficacy; effecting no purpose; fruitless; ineffectual; as, vain toil; a vain attempt..
Crack :: Crack (v. i.) To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of..
Idle :: Idle (superl.) Of no account; useless; vain; trifling; unprofitable; thoughtless; silly; barren.
Flatulent :: Flatulent (a.) Pretentious without substance or reality; puffy; empty; vain; as, a flatulent vanity..
Puff :: Puff (a.) Puffed up; vain.
Form :: Form (n.) Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form..
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