[だめ(P);ダメ, dame (P); dame] (adj-na, n) (1) (uk) no good; not serving its purpose; useless; broken; (2) (uk) hopeless; wasted; in vain; purposeless; (3) (uk) cannot; must not; not allowed; (P) #15167
[むなしく, munashiku] (adv) in vain; to no purpose; fruitlessly
[むなしくついやされたとき, munashikutsuiyasaretatoki] (n) wasted time; time passed in vain
[からぶり, karaburi] (n, vs) striking (at something) and missing; in vain; (P)
[けんとうむなしく, kentoumunashiku] (exp) fighting in vain
[いぬじに, inujini] (n, vs) (sens) die in vain
[かいがない, kaiganai] (exp, adj-i) useless; in vain
[ほねおりぞんのくたびれもうけ, honeorizonnokutabiremouke] (exp) (id) Great pains but all in vain
[まちぼうけ, machibouke] (n) waiting in vain
[まちぼうける;まちぼける, machiboukeru ; machibokeru] (v1) to wait in vain
[いたずらに, itazurani] (adv) (uk) in vain; uselessly; aimlessly; idly
[とし, toshi] (n, vs) dying in vain
[とろうにおわる, torouniowaru] (exp, v5r) to end in vain; to be wasted effort
[どりょくもむなしく, doryokumomunashiku] (n) after efforts in vain
[ひゃくねんかせい, hyakunenkasei] (exp) waiting for one hundred years for the waters of the Yellow River to clear; waiting in vain for an unlikely event; waiting for pigs to fly; When the sky falls, we shall catch larks
[むだぼねおり, mudaboneori] (n, vs) laboring in vain or for no result; labouring in vain
[むだじに, mudajini] (n, vs) (sens) dying in vain