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{"id": "vain", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "vain", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"derivatives": [{"id": "vainness", "text": "vainness"}], "entries": [{"etymologies": ["Middle English (in the sense \u2018devoid of real worth\u2019): via Old French from Latin vanus \u2018empty, without substance\u2019"], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/vain_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "ve\u026an"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["having or showing an excessively high opinion of one's appearance, abilities, or worth"], "examples": [{"text": "their flattery made him vain"}, {"text": "a vain woman with a streak of snobbery"}], "id": "m_en_gbus1118450.006", "shortDefinitions": ["having or showing very high opinion of one's appearance or worth"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "conceited"}, {"language": "en", "text": "narcissistic"}, {"language": "en", "text": "self-loving"}, {"language": "en", "text": "in love with oneself"}, {"language": "en", "text": "self-admiring"}, {"language": "en", "text": "self-regarding"}, {"language": "en", "text": "wrapped up in oneself"}, {"language": "en", "text": "self-absorbed"}, {"language": "en", "text": "self-obsessed"}, {"language": "en", "text": "self-centred"}, {"language": "en", "text": "egotistic"}, {"language": "en", "text": "egotistical"}, {"language": "en", "text": "egoistic"}, {"language": "en", "text": "egocentric"}, {"language": "en", "text": "egomaniac"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "vain", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0015822.001"}]}, {"definitions": ["producing no result; useless"], "examples": [{"text": "a vain attempt to tidy up the room"}, {"text": "the vain hope of finding work"}], "id": "m_en_gbus1118450.011", "notes": [{"text": "attributive", "type": "grammaticalNote"}], "shortDefinitions": ["producing no result"], "subsenses": [{"definitions": ["having no likelihood of fulfilment; empty"], "examples": [{"text": "a vain boast"}], "id": "m_en_gbus1118450.012", "shortDefinitions": ["having no likelihood of fulfilment"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "futile"}, {"language": "en", "text": "useless"}, {"language": "en", "text": "pointless"}, {"language": "en", "text": "to no purpose"}, {"language": "en", "text": "worthless"}, {"language": "en", "text": "nugatory"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "in_vain", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0015822.004"}]}], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "futile"}, {"language": "en", "text": "useless"}, {"language": "en", "text": "pointless"}, {"language": "en", "text": "worthless"}, {"language": "en", "text": "nugatory"}, {"language": "en", "text": "to no purpose"}, {"language": "en", "text": "in vain"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "vain", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0015822.002"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "adjective", "text": "Adjective"}, "phrases": [{"id": "in_vain", "text": "in vain"}, {"id": "take_someone%27s_name_in_vain", "text": "take someone's name in vain"}], "text": "vain"}], "type": "headword", "word": "vain"}], "word": "vain"}
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