0 unsuccessful; of no value:
1 too interested in your own appearance or achievements:
2 unsuccessful or useless; failing to achieve a purpose:
3 too proud of yourself, esp. in your appearance or achievements
As he quite logically pointed out, no one would be vain of literacy in a society where everyone was literate.
I too hoped and waited for one until now- but in vain.
He could hardly have expounded his position more clearly: quite bluntly, any plans to abolish music are described as vain.
The overarching problem that inspired the controversy is an essential discrepancy that one hopes, in vain, is merely literary or typographical.
The reforming conductor's efforts were in vain; thus 'rue', an old-fashioned literary word for regret.
Not in vain were the author and reciter of the epic called sarvadarshi, all-seeing.
Their efforts were largely in vain, however, since the separate disciplines tended to continue on their way unaffected by the rhetoric of unity.
I looked in vain for the terms theropod, cynodont and perissodactyl and yet some 10% of the definitions are apparently devoted to palaeontology.
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