Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: tevergeefs
- Amharic: vain
- Arabic: دون جدوى
- Azerbaijani: əbəs yerə
- Bashkir: бушҡа
- Belarusian: дарма
- Bulgarian: напразно
- Bengali: নিরর্থক
- Bosnian: uzalud
- Catalan: va
- Cebuano: kawang nga mga
- Czech: marně
- Welsh: ofer
- Danish: forgæves
- German: umsonst
- Greek: μάταια
- Esperanto: vana
- Spanish: vano
- Estonian: asjata
- Basque: alferrik
- Persian: بیهوده
- Finnish: turhaan
- French: vain
- Irish: vain
- Scottish Gaelic: vain
- Galician: va
- Gujarati: વ્યર્થ
- Hebrew: לשווא
- Hindi: व्यर्थ
- Croatian: uzalud
- Haitian: gremesi
- Hungarian: hiába
- Armenian: իզուր
- Indonesian: sia-sia
- Icelandic: einskis
- Italian: invano
- Japanese: 無駄
- Javanese: muspra
- Georgian: უშედეგოდ
- Kazakh: бекер
- Khmer: ប្រយោជន៍
- Kannada: ಭಾಸ್ಕರ್
- Korean: 헛되이
- Kyrgyz: зря
- Latin: frustra
- Luxembourgish: sief
- Lao: ໂຫຍ
- Lithuanian: veltui
- Latvian: veltīgi
- Malagasy: zava-poana
- Mari: арам
- Maori: noa
- Macedonian: залудно
- Malayalam: വൃഥാ
- Mongolian: хоосон
- Marathi: व्यर्थ
- Hill Mari: аран
- Malay: - sia
- Maltese: vain
- Burmese: အချည်းနှီး
- Nepali: व्यर्थ
- Dutch: tevergeefs
- Norwegian: forgjeves
- Punjabi: ਵਿਅਰਥ
- Papiamento: bano
- Polish: na próżno
- Portuguese: vão
- Romanian: zadar
- Russian: зря
- Sinhalese: නිෂ්ඵල
- Slovak: márne
- Slovenian: zaman
- Albanian: të kota
- Serbian: узалуд
- Sundanese: hawa
- Swedish: förgäves
- Swahili: bure
- Tamil: வீண்
- Telugu: ఫలించలేదు
- Tajik: барои ин сабабҳои асоснок дорад
- Thai: อย่างไร้ประโยชน์เด็ดขา
- Tagalog: walang kabuluhan
- Turkish: boşuna
- Tatar: юкка
- Udmurt: токма
- Ukrainian: дарма
- Urdu: بیکار
- Uzbek: behuda
- Vietnamese: vô ích
- Xhosa: wenu
- Yiddish: אַרויסגעוואָרפן
- Chinese: 徒劳的
Synonyms, close and similar words for vain
- wasted
- groundless
- in vain
- for nothing
- conceited
- complacent
- proud
- unavailing
- fruitless
- needlessly
- of no effect
- futile
- pointless
- worldly
- useless
- valueless
- otiose
- profitless
- unprofitable
- barren
- ineffectual
- ineffective
- unsuccessful
- vainglorious
- narcissistic
- egotistical
- empty
- smug
- abortive
- null