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4-letter words (2 found)

VAIN,VINA,

3-letter words (6 found)

AIN,ANI,NAV,VAN,VIA,VIN,

2-letter words (4 found)

AI,AN,IN,NA,

You can make 12 words from vain according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of vain

vain avin vian ivan aivn iavn vani avni vnai nvai anvi navi vina ivna vnia nvia inva niva ainv ianv aniv naiv inav niav

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Definitions and meaning of vain

vain

Alternative forms

  • wayn (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • enPR: vān, IPA(key): /veɪn/
  • Homophones: vane, vein
  • Rhymes: -eɪn

Etymology 1

From Middle English veyn, from Old French vain, from Latin vānus (“empty”).

Adjective

vain (comparative vainer or more vain, superlative vainest or most vain)

  1. Overly proud of oneself, especially concerning appearance; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason.
  2. Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying.
  3. Effecting no purpose; pointless, futile.
  4. Showy; ostentatious.
Synonyms
  • (overly proud of oneself): conceited; puffed up; inflated
  • (pointless): pointless, futile, fruitless, ineffectual
  • See also Thesaurus:arrogant
  • See also Thesaurus:futile
Derived terms
  • in vain
    • Richard of York gave battle in vain
    • take someone's name in vain
  • vainness
  • vainly
Related terms
  • vanity
Translations

Etymology 2

A converstion of the adjectival form of vain. The only use of this verb in English appears c. 1628 in the writings of Owen Felltham.

Verb

vain (third-person singular simple present vains, present participle vaining, simple past and past participle vained)

  1. (transitive, rare, dated, obsolete) To frustrate. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
Further reading
  • “vain”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “vain”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “vain”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • Ivan, Na'vi, Vani, Vian, Vina, Viña, ivan, vina

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

  • ven

Etymology

From Latin vīnum. Compare Istriot veîn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /βeŋ/

Noun

vain m

  1. wine

Finnish

Alternative forms

  • vaan (colloquial, all senses; also has other non-colloquial meanings)

Etymology

Probably an old instructive plural of the stem vaja- (*vajin). Cognate with Estonian vaid.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋɑi̯n/, [ˈʋɑ̝i̯n]
  • Rhymes: -ɑin
  • Syllabification(key): vain

Adverb

vain

  1. only, merely, exclusively, solely, just
  2. ever (when used with an interrogative pronoun)
    Synonym: tahansa
    mikä vain ― whatever
    milloin vain ― whenever
  3. An emphatic word used with the negative verb and -kö.
  4. (with a verb in imperative) go ahead, be my guest (in positive); definitely (in negative)
    Synonyms: sen kuin, sen kun, ihmeessä

Derived terms

  • kuka vain
  • mikä vain

Further reading

  • “vain”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04

Anagrams

  • inva-, ivan, niva, vian

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French vain, from Latin vānus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɛ̃/
  • Homophones: vainc, vaincs, vains, vin, vingt, vingts, vins, vint, vînt

Adjective

vain (feminine vaine, masculine plural vains, feminine plural vaines)

  1. useless, ineffective, fruitless
    Synonyms: see inutile
  2. vain, shallow
    Synonym: frivole

Derived terms

  • en vain

Related terms

  • vanité
  • vaniteux

Further reading

  • “vain”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norman

Etymology

From Old French vain, from Latin vānus (“empty”).

Adjective

vain m

  1. (Jersey) vain

Derived terms

  • vainement (“vainly”)

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