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What is the adjective for vanity?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs vainglory and vanitize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

vain
  1. Overly proud of oneself, especially concerning appearance; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason.
  2. Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying.
  3. Effecting no purpose; pointless, futile.
  4. Showy; ostentatious.
  5. Synonyms:
      6. conceited, narcissistic, egotistical, arrogant, proud, overweening, vainglorious, cocky, egoistic, swaggering, egotistic, stuck-up, boastful, egocentric, haughty, self-absorbed, self-admiring, self-important, self-loving, self-obsessed, self-regarding, bigheaded, egomaniac, inflated, peacockish, self-centered, self-centred, affected, assured, biggety, biggity, complacent, consequential, egoistical, imperious, important, ostentatious, pompous, prideful, self-conceited, self-opinionated, self-satisfied, smug, swanky, swellheaded, swollen-headed, big-headed, high-and-mighty, in love with oneself, wrapped up in oneself … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “Few people can stand constant praise without becoming vain and self-centered.”
      “I took several deep breaths in a very vain attempt to calm myself.”
      “Being now separated from my former associates, I determined not to entạngle myself again in the vain pleasures of life.”
vainglorious
  1. With excessive vanity or unwarranted pride.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. conceited, pompous, egotistical, proud, vain, egotistic, egoistic, smug, arrogant, egoistical, overweening, prideful, haughty, bigheaded, important, cocky, presumptuous, pretentious, boastful, biggity, swellheaded, biggety, snobbish, assured, overbearing, swaggering, snooty, cavalier, bragging, huffy, strutting, boasting, self-important, stuck-up, self-satisfied, self-conceited, self-opinionated, puffed up, high-handed, high-and-mighty, blowing one's own horn, narcissistic, complacent, superior, supercilious, consequential, self-centered, self-centred, egocentric, bumptious … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “In other words, he comes across as a vainglorious know-it-all, absolutely convinced that he's right about everything.”
      “His promise to the commissioner of more to come is not just a journalist's vainglorious bluster.”
      “Like many vainglorious self-publicists, he probably thought he could charm the acid interviewer.”
in vain
  1. (idiomatic) Unsuccessful, failed.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. useless, ineffective, futile, ineffectual, unsuccessful, fruitless, unproductive, vain, abortive, inefficacious, pointless, unprofitable, unavailing, profitless, worthless, bootless, barren, empty, nugatory, otiose, thwarted, foiled, impotent, powerless, balked, baulked, frustrated, to no avail, to no purpose, without success, hopeless, idle, valueless, to no effect, hollow, failed, wasted, of no use, purposeless, senseless, insignificant, doomed, unrewarding, meaningless, trifling, lost, no dice, Sisyphean, of no avail, aimless … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The soldier pleaded that family troubles had led to his uncharacteristic behavior, but the utterings proved to be in vain.”
vaniloquent
  1. Talking in a vain or foolish way
vainer
  1. comparative form of vain: more vain
  2. Synonyms:
      3. prouder, cockier, haughtier, smugger, swankier, more conceited, more narcissistic, more egotistical, more arrogant, more overweening, more vainglorious, more egoistic, more swaggering, more egotistic, more stuck-up, more boastful, more egocentric, more self-absorbed, more self-important, more self-obsessed, more bigheaded, more inflated, more peacockish, more self-centered, more self-centred, more affected, more assured, more biggety, more biggity, more complacent, more consequential, more egoistical, more important, more ostentatious, more pompous, more prideful, more self-conceited, more self-satisfied, more swellheaded, more puffed up, more pretentious, more snobbish, more supercilious, more selfish, snootier, more presumptuous, more bumptious, uppitier, more overbearing, more self-serving … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Afy Hallijohn was sailing up the street in its beams, finer and vainer than ever.”
      “The words might have made a vainer man than he was much happier than they did him.”
      “According to Jorrocks, hunting men must be vainer than we are, for we do not wear pink.”
vainest
  1. superlative form of vain: most vain
  2. Synonyms:
      3. proudest, cockiest, haughtiest, smuggest, swankiest, most conceited, most narcissistic, most egotistical, most arrogant, most overweening, most vainglorious, most egoistic, most swaggering, most egotistic, most stuck-up, most boastful, most egocentric, most self-absorbed, most self-important, most self-obsessed, most bigheaded, most inflated, most peacockish, most self-centered, most self-centred, most affected, most assured, most biggety, most biggity, most complacent, most consequential, most egoistical, most important, most ostentatious, most pompous, most prideful, most self-conceited, most self-satisfied, most swellheaded, most big-headed, most puffed up, most pretentious, most snobbish, most supercilious, most selfish, snootiest, most presumptuous, most bumptious, uppitiest, most overbearing … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Milwaukee came in among the top 40 vainest cities in the country, while Pittsburgh ranked half as vain.”
      “And the Germans, the vainest race in Europe, rose like catfish to the bait.”
      “Of all the vain wishes, the retroactive pluperfect are the vainest, and an antenatal wish is sublimely ridiculous.”
vaingloried
  1. simple past tense and past participle of vainglory
vainglorying
  1. present participle of vainglory
vanitized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of vanitize
vanitizing
  1. present participle of vanitize
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