Crossword-Solution: VAIN 4 letters, 209 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Vain superl. Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty;
void; worthless; unsatisfying.
Vain superl. Destitute of forge or efficacy; effecting no purpose;
fruitless; ineffectual; as, vain toil; a vain attempt.
Vain superl. Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments;
having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason;
conceited; puffed up; inflated.
Vain superl. Showy; ostentatious.
Vain n. Vanity; emptiness; -- now used only in the phrase in vain.

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VAIN anagram IVAN, NAVI, VINA

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"You're So __": Carly Simon hit 1 answer
"You're So ___" 1 answer
"You're So ___" (Carly Simon #1 hit) 1 answer
"You're So ___" (Carly Simon song) 1 answer
"You're So ___" (Simon song) 1 answer
"You're So ___": 1973 #1 hit 1 answer
"You're so ___ / You probably think this song is about you" 1 answer
Captivated by mirrors 1 answer
Carly Simon "You're So ___" 1 answer
Carly Simon's "You're So ___" 1 answer
Far from modest 1 answer
Fond of mirrors? 1 answer
Fond of oneself 1 answer
Fond of self-reflection? 1 answer
Given to self-reflection? 1 answer
Glued to the mirror, maybe 1 answer
Having a swelled head 1 answer
Having an excessively high opinion of oneself 1 answer
Hollow: empty. 1 answer
In __ (without effect) 1 answer
In love with oneself 1 answer
Irreverently, after "in" 1 answer
Like Kanye West 1 answer
Like frasier, at times 1 answer
Like narcissists 1 answer
Likely to stop at mirrors 1 answer
Marked by futility 1 answer
Mirror-conscious 1 answer
Narcissus Like 1 answer
Of no real value. 1 answer
Prone to primping 1 answer
Prone to swagger 1 answer
Puffed up, so to speak 1 answer
Really full of oneself 1 answer
Really into oneself 1 answer
Self-admiring 1 answer
Self-inflating 1 answer
Self-involved 1 answer
Self-opinionated 1 answer
Self-smitten 1 answer
Sold on one's self 1 answer
Swollen-headed 1 answer
Thinking a song is about oneself, say 1 answer
Too full of oneself 1 answer
Too self-centered 1 answer
Unable to merely walk past a mirror, say 1 answer
Unsuccessful, as an effort 1 answer
Very self-interested 1 answer
What Bob Marley was "Waiting In" 1 answer
Without efficacy. 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NECROA
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with VAIN (5)

These are the seven entrances to the home under the ground, for which Hook has been searching in vain these many moons.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
Came the Spring, and all the forest Looked in vain for Chibiabos; Sighed the rivulet, Sebowisha, Sighed the rushes in the meadow.
The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991
High on a Throne of Royal State, which far Outshon the wealth of _Ormus_ and of _Ind_, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showrs on her Kings _Barbaric_ Pearl & Gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais’d To that bad eminence; and from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires Beyond thus high, insatiate to pursue Vain Warr with Heav’n, and by success untaught His proud imaginations thus displaid.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Goad on your bullocks, and never more pray to me for help, until you have done your best to help yourself, or depend upon it you will henceforth pray in vain.” Self-help is the best help.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
Such will try to discredit the shocking tales of slaveholding cruelty which are recorded in this truthful Narrative; but they will labor in vain.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992

Quotes with VAIN (3)

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
Jane Austen Pride And Prejudice
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A man leaves his great house because he's bored With life at home, and suddenly returns, Finding himself no happier abroad. He rushes off to his villa driving like mad, You'ld think he's going to a house on fire, And yawns before he's put his foot inside, Or falls asleep and seeks oblivion, Or even rushes back to town again. So each man flies from himself (vain hope, because It clings to him the more closely against his will) And hates himself because he is sick in mind And d…
Titus Lucretius Carus
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 255 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).