Vainest

Definition

vain / veÇn / adj ( -er, -est ) ၁။ စိတ္ႀကီးဝင္ေသာ။ ဂုဏ္ ေမာက္ေသာ။ မာနေထာင္လႊားေသာ။ ၂။ အခ်ည္းႏီွး။ အလကား။ အလဟႆ။ a vain attempt ❍ in the vain hope of persuading him. ၃။ ( dated or rhet ) အႏွစ္မဲ့ေသာ။ အရာမေရာက္ေသာ။ vain promises. ❏ in vain [ IDM ] ၁။ အခ်ည္းႏီွး။ အလကား။ I tried in vain to sleep. ၂။ အလဟႆ။ အလကား။ All our efforts were in vain. ❏ vainly adv ၁ ။ အခ်ည္းႏီွး။ He was vainly trying to find the keyhole in the dark. ၂။ ေမာက္ေမာက္မာမာ။

Examples

1. He was vain about his looks
2. spending hours in the gym.
3. [a vain attempt/bid/effort] : They made a vain attempt to protect the town from attack.
4. [vain hope] : He underwent a knee operation in the vain hope of getting into the team.