vain

Adjective

• unproductive of success
  • a fruitless search
    
  • futile years after her artistic peak
    
  • a sleeveless errand
    
  • a vain attempt
    

• characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
  • a conceited fool
    
  • an attitude of self-conceited arrogance
    
  • an egotistical disregard of others
    
  • so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty
    
  • growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary
    
  • vain about her clothes
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  bootless , fruitless , futile , sleeveless , conceited , egotistic , egotistical , self-conceited , swollen , swollen-headed