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What is another word for
in vain
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Contexts
▼
▲
Adjective
Unable or insufficient to produce any effect or result
Adverb
Without success or a result
Having no reason, explanation or excuse
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▲
Adjective
▲
Unable or insufficient to produce any effect or result
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
US
baulked
UK
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
irrelevant
needless
impractical
trivial
inconsequential
losing
without rhyme or reason
on a treadmill
self-defeating
frivolous
non-successful
for nought
not worth the candle
sterile
forlorn
unimportant
footling
purportless
misfired
delusive
impracticable
junky
paltry
inadequate
unfruitful
stymied
thankless
dysfunctional
no use
hindered
stonewalled
obstructed
fouled up
counterproductive
unhelpful
good-for-nothing
unremunerative
maladaptive
botched
disastrous
unreasonable
mindless
not fruitful
self-destructive
self-sabotaging
dysregulated
null
unsound
unmeaning
petty
chaffy
groundless
scant
a dead loss
feeble
unfructuous
unprolific
miserable
no-good
of no earthly use
unavailable
spinning one's wheels
wild goose chase
for naught
gainless
insubstantial
casual
unfounded
baseless
without grounds
not serious
without foundation
lacking foundation
rambling
time-wasting
unnotable
no-win
void
puny
misleading
delusory
slight
not a prayer
in vicious circle
going nowhere
cramped
blocked
defeated
inane
nonsensical
absurd
inutile
unworkable
unusable
unsuitable
insane
fatuous
unserviceable
inefficient
nonfunctional
unpurposed
feckless
expendable
pathetic
unbeneficial
stillborn
scrap
broken
unuseful
inoperable
pants
not useful
inoperative
nonpractical
unfunctional
nongermane
superfluous
redundant
unnecessary
desperate
exhausted
unsatisfactory
unsubstantial
unreal
insufficient
resultless
unneeded
despairing
not pertinent
no good to gundy
unlikely
unrealistic
unduly optimistic
pious
nothing
negligible
inept
inexpedient
piddling
unessential
inferior
incompetent
inconsiderable
unable
weak
incapable
lame
poor
banal
bungled
minute
picayune
measly
vapid
of no benefit
Mickey Mouse
minor
piffling
hamstrung
impossible
niggling
little
foolish
meritless
no-account
immaterial
silly
nonproductive
vacuous
of no consequence
of no great concern
of no account
motiveless
inactive
defective
mediocre
lousy
wretched
no good
of no value
dry
off
dull
lazy
small
incidental
boring
superficial
fiddling
uninspiring
light
nonessential
non-functioning
waste
uninteresting
indolent
anticlimactic
small-time
second-rate
indecisive
wasteful
unambitious
forceless
withered
commonplace
humdrum
uncreative
vacant
drab
unyieldly
shiftless
prosaic
goalless
nominal
not valuable
wanky
deficient
ridiculous
limited
unfit
silent
not working
poxy
stupid
inadmissible
disadvantageous
piddly
unenterprising
derisory
pimping
negative
ruined
spoiled
US
spoilt
UK
inconvenient
peanut
beyond hope
unachievable
chicken
not effective
incommodious
wanton
not much cop
peripheral
drifting
unconstructive
dinky
cheap
not having a prayer
with no chance of success
messed up
not helpful
uncalled-for
nickel-and-dime
de minimis
uncalled for
small-fry
minuscule
bush-league
of little consequence
of little importance
no great shakes
minor-league
uncelebrated
lightweight
lesser
secondary
not worth mentioning
of no importance
obscure
infinitesimal
inappreciable
low-ranking
uneconomic
failing
miscarried
puerile
unlucrative
bungling
rotten
toothless
throwaway
pyrrhic
uninformative
unvaluable
specious
effete
parlous
insincere
of little worth
adverse
without value
spiritless
objectless
lacking value
dead
unpromising
contemptible
stale
insipid
not needed
base
not in use
out of use
turned off
out of service
wandering
unasked
arid
tedious
flat
abject
drossy
helpless
adrift
Pyrrhic
nonconstructive
lacklustre
UK
dreary
unstimulating
monotonous
lifeless
ne'er-do-well
unreturned
unfilled
clear
unattainable
witless
indiscriminate
designless
thoughtless
illogical
irrational
luckless
ill-fated
bleak
lackluster
US
not worth it
apathetic
desultory
brainless
random
careless
beyond remedy
despaired of
irresponsible
ill-suited
inappropriate
unsuited
carefree
floundering
undirected
haphazard
slothful
not proper
wanting
not good enough
unequal
improper
unqualified
neutralized
US
defeasible
innocuous
neutralised
UK
flimsy
junk
unadvantageous
inconsistent
incompatible
inapt
hit-or-miss
no-go
trashy
rubbishy
undesirable
detrimental
rubbish
bogus
ignoble
abandoned
wishy-washy
unreliable
two a penny
ludicrous
preposterous
laughable
wild
unexceptional
risible
ordinary
extraneous
crazy
average
outrageous
pitiful
common
typical
plain
asinine
mundane
bland
unremarkable
undistinguished
usual
unmemorable
pedestrian
frothy
shoestring
comical
unexciting
routine
unnoteworthy
vanilla
normal
unimpressive
trite
tinpot
zero
zilch
zip
indifferent
idiotic
nowhere
middling
uneventful
uninspired
non-essential
pettifogging
workaday
nondescript
everyday
neither here nor there
of no moment
not worth speaking of
doesn't matter
beside the point
twopenny-halfpenny
low priority
derisive
beggarly
characterless
whatever
subsidiary
cockamamie
pitiable
daft
cockamamy
sorry
imbecilic
run-of-the-mill
so-so
barmy
a dime a dozen
dime-a-dozen
common or garden
bog-standard
garden-variety
nothing to write home about
middle-of-the-road
nothing special
plain vanilla
garden variety
bog standard
of little account
embarrassing
farcical
hare-brained
more ❯
“The soldier pleaded that family troubles had led to his uncharacteristic behavior, but the utterings proved to be
in vain
.”
Adverb
▲
Without success or a result
ineffectually
unsuccessfully
vainly
fruitlessly
profitlessly
unproductively
to no purpose
without success
to no avail
with no result
to no effect
futilely
without result
bootlessly
for nothing
ineffectively
uselessly
to little avail
failing repeatedly
pointlessly
needlessly
“He has inspired imitators, tolerated plagiarists, and confounded the hackers who try
in vain
to turn his craft into software.”
Adverb
▲
Having no reason, explanation or excuse
needlessly
unnecessarily
unessentially
pointlessly
purposelessly
uselessly
without cause
without justification
without reason
inessentially
redundantly
gratuitously
superfluously
futilely
worthlessly
unwarrantedly
unimportantly
optionally
irrelevantly
unwantedly
extraneously
senselessly
unproductively
meaninglessly
aimlessly
avoidably
fruitlessly
excessively
trivially
peripherally
unavailingly
unprofitably
valuelessly
emptily
extrinsically
additionally
hollowly
causelessly
mindlessly
supererogatorily
insignificantly
idly
wantonly
uncritically
accidentally
cosmetically
haphazardly
casually
randomly
incidentally
supplementarily
fortuitously
undesirably
motivelessly
unreasonably
groundlessly
vainly
inanely
unjustifiedly
hopelessly
nonsensically
unmeritedly
exorbitantly
minorly
prodigally
inconsequentially
unprovokedly
ineffectually
supernumerarily
disposably
ineffectively
otiosely
profitlessly
indiscriminately
secondarily
ornamentally
triflingly
barrenly
frivolously
fatuously
lavishly
profusely
removably
furtherly
supplementally
absurdly
subsidiarily
immaterially
paltrily
sillily
puerilely
subordinately
accessorily
outmodedly
unjustifiably
freshly
inappropriately
insanely
sparely
unsuccessfully
inefficaciously
specially
abortively
goallessly
vacuously
inordinately
bootlessly
extravagantly
illogically
irrationally
designlessly
vapidly
thoughtlessly
witlessly
unrewardingly
desultorily
unhelpfully
fecklessly
brainlessly
pettily
unfruitfully
superabundantly
pleonastically
extremely
aboundingly
ridiculously
wishy-washily
driftingly
undirectedly
unavailably
gainlessly
unmeaningly
unsoundly
obliviously
stupidly
insubstantially
wanderingly
vacantly
directionlessly
foolishly
flatly
insipidly
superficially
impotently
baselessly
shallowly
ramblingly
unfoundedly
flippantly
nigglingly
negligibly
flightily
unsatisfactorily
boringly
stalely
uninspiringly
unreally
drily
uninterestingly
banally
cheaply
deadly
aridly
commonplacely
tediously
junkily
unsubstantially
asininely
prosaically
lifelessly
humdrumly
sterilely
drearily
lacklustrely
UK
monotonously
drably
ludicrously
daftly
idiotically
clearly
laughably
unintelligently
imbecilically
risibly
goofily
lacklusterly
US
moronically
dumbly
sappily
gormlessly
dimly
cretinously
childishly
infantilely
rootlessly
immaturely
innocuously
crassly
weakly
floatingly
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