in vain

Speech parts

1. in vain - Adjective

2. in vain - Adverb

3. in vain - Phrase

Meaning

to no avail

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

vainly empty unsuccessful hollow ineffective useless frustrated idle vain wasted sterile doomed futile barren worthless
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Antonyms

successful effective useful efficient valuable productive
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Examples

Why do you increase your bonds? Take hold of your life before your light grows dark and you seek help and do not find it. This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits. Isaac the Syrian

Whoever hammers a lump of iron, first decides what he is going to make of it, a scythe, a sword, or an axe. Even so we ought to make up our minds what kind of virtue we want to forge or we labour in vain. Anthony the Great

Do not think about or do anything without a spiritual purpose, whereby it is done for God. For If you travel without purpose, you shall labor in vain. Marcus Eremita

Money spent on brain is never spent in vain. English Proverb

Without love everything is in vain. Hindi Proverb

Anyone who plants a tree before they die has not lived in vain. Benin Proverb

Words in the phrase

in vain

Close letter words and terms

in v-tach in vacuo in vacuum in various locations in various parts of the world in vegas