Vain vs. Pain — What's the Difference?

Having or showing an excessively high opinion of one's appearance, abilities, or worth

Pain is a distressing feeling often caused by intense or damaging stimuli. The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage." In medical diagnosis, pain is regarded as a symptom of an underlying condition.

Producing no result; useless

Highly unpleasant physical sensation caused by illness or injury

Not yielding the desired outcome; fruitless

Great care or trouble

Lacking substance or worth

Cause mental or physical pain to

Having or showing excessive pride in one's appearance or accomplishments; conceited.

An unpleasant feeling occurring as a result of injury or disease, usually localized in some part of the body

(Archaic) Foolish.

Bodily suffering characterized by such feelings

Overly proud of oneself, especially concerning appearance; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason.

Mental or emotional suffering; distress.

Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying.

An instance of this

Effecting no purpose; pointless, futile.

Pains The pangs of childbirth.

Showy; ostentatious.

Pains Great care or effort

Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying.

(Informal) A source of annoyance; a nuisance

Destitute of force or efficacy; effecting no purpose; fruitless; ineffectual; as, vain toil; a vain attempt.

To cause physical pain to; hurt

Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason; conceited; puffed up; inflated.

To cause mental or emotional distress to

Showy; ostentatious.

An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.

Vanity; emptiness; - now used only in the phrase in vain.

(uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress

Characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance;

An annoying person or thing.

Unproductive of success;

Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.

Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.

Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.

(transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.

(transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.

To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

To feel pain; to hurt.

Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.

Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart.

Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.

Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish. Also called mental pain.

See Pains, labor, effort.

To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him.

To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as, a child's faults pain his parents.

A symptom of some physical hurt or disorder;

Emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid;

A somatic sensation of acute discomfort;

A bothersome annoying person;

Something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness;

Cause bodily suffering to

Cause emotional anguish or make miserable;