Lazy vs Vain - What's the difference?
lazy | vain |
Unwilling to do work or make an effort.
Requiring little or no effort.
Relaxed or leisurely.
(label) Of an eye, squinting because of a weakness of the eye muscles.
(label) Turned so that the letter is horizontal instead of vertical.
(label) Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.
wicked; vicious
Overly proud of oneself, especially concerning appearance; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason.
* (rfdate) Leo Rosten
Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* Bible, (w) v. 6
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
Effecting no purpose; pointless, futile.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* (rfdate) William of Occam
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=6, title= Showy; ostentatious.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
As a verb lazy
is .As a noun vain is
.lazy
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Adjective
(er)- (Ben Jonson)
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "lazy" is often applied: person, man, woman, bastard, morning, day, time, way.Synonyms
* (unwilling to work) bone-idle, idle, indolent, slothful, work-shy * See alsoDerived terms
* laze * laziness * lazybones * lazy evaluation * lazy eye * lazy Susanvain
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Adjective
(en-adj)- Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain ; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
- thy vain excuse
- Let no man deceive you with vain words.
- Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.
- Vain is the force of man / To crush the pillars which the pile sustain.
- It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.}}
- Load some vain church with old theatric state.
