Vain: alternatives and connections

Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense

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Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense

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The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum; as, the emptiness of a vessel; emptiness of the stomach.

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The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum; as, the emptiness of a vessel; emptiness of the stomach.

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The quality or state of being vain; want of substance to satisfy desire; emptiness; unsubstantialness; unrealness; falsity.

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The quality or state of being vain; want of substance to satisfy desire; emptiness; unsubstantialness; unrealness; falsity.

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Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success.

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Endowed with fancy or imagination.

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Alt. of Egotistical

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Addicted to, or manifesting, egotism.

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Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage.

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Talkative; loquacious; tattling.

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Having an overweening opinion of one's own powers, attainments; vain; conceited.

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Having no sleeves.

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of Swell

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