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How to pronounce “vain”
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Pronunciation guide for vain
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of vain with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Mick Flannery Live Performance
♪ Or is your love in vain?
- Definition summary
- Overly proud of oneself, especially concerning appearance; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce vain
Mick Flannery Live Performance

♪ Or is your love in vain?
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “vain”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Overly proud of oneself, especially concerning appearance; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason.
- Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying.
- Effecting no purpose; pointless, futile.
- Showy; ostentatious.
- [Verb]
- (transitive, rare, dated, obsolete) To frustrate. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
- [Noun]
- wine
- [Adverb]
- only, merely, exclusively, solely, just
- ever (when used with an interrogative pronoun)
- An emphatic word used with the negative verb and -kö.
- (with a verb in imperative) go ahead, be my guest (in positive); definitely (in negative)
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