Empty; worthless; having no substance, value or importance. Peter 1:18. To your vain answer will you have recourse. Every man walketh in a vain show. Psalm 39:6. Why do the people imagine a vain thing? Psalm 2:7.

Fruitless; ineffectual. All attempts, all efforts were vain. Vain is the force of man.

Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; elated with a high opinion of one’s own accomplishments, or with things more showy than valuable; conceited. The minstrels play’d on every side, vain of their art - .

Empty; unreal; as a vain chimers.

Showy; ostentatious. Load some vain church with old theatric state.

Light; inconstant; worthless. Proverbs 12:11.

Empty; unsatisfying. The pleasures of life are vain.

False; deceitful; not genuine; spurious. James 1:26.

Not effectual; having no efficacy . Bring no more vain oblations. Isaiah 1:73. In vain, to no purpose; without effect; ineffectual. In vain they do worship me. Matthew 15:9. To take the name of God in vain, to use the name of God with levity or profaneness.