vain
/veɪn/
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vain
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Myanmar meaning
(adj) စိတ်ကြီးဝင်သော။ ဂုဏ် မောက်သော။ မာနထောင်လွှားသော။အချည်းနှီး။ အလကား။ အလဟဿ။အနှစ်မဲ့သော။ အရာမရောက်သော။
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vain / veÇn / adj (-er, -est )
၁။ စိတ်ကြီးဝင်သော။ ဂုဏ် မောက်သော။ မာနထောင်လွှားသော။
၂။ အချည်းနှီး။ အလကား။ အလဟဿ။ a vain attempt ❍ in the vain hope of persuading him.
၃။ (dated or rhet ) အနှစ်မဲ့သော။ အရာမရောက်သော။ vain promises.
❏ in vain [IDM ]
၁။ အချည်းနှီး။ အလကား။
I tried in vain to sleep.
၂။ အလဟဿ။ အလကား။ All our efforts were in vain.
❏ vainly adv ၁။ အချည်းနှီး။ He was vainly trying to find the keyhole in the dark.
၂။ မောက်မောက်မာမာ။
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ineffective, hopeless, unsuccessful, unproductive, futile, useless, abortive, worthless, arrogant, barren, big-headed, bigheaded, boastful, bootless, cocky, conceited, delusive, delusory, egocentric, egoistic, egotistical, empty, frivolous, fruitless, going nowhere, haughty, high-and-mighty, hollow, idle, in vicious circle, inefficacious, inflated, insignificant, misleading, narcissistic, no-win, not a prayer, nugatory, on a treadmill, ostentatious, otiose, overweening, paltry, petty, pleased with oneself, pointless, profitless, proud, puffed up, puny, self-important, senseless, shuck, slight, sterile, stuck-up, swaggering, swollen-headed, time-wasting, trifling, trivial, unavailing, unimportant, unnotable, unprofitable, vainglorious, valueless, void
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