jejune
[ji-joon]
adjective
without interest or significance; dull; insipid: a jejune novel.
juvenile; immature; childish: jejune behavior.
lacking knowledge or experience; uninformed: jejune attempts to design a house.
deficient or lacking in nutritive value: a jejune diet.
Origin of jejune
First recorded in 1605–15, jejune is from the Latin word jējūnus empty, poor, mean
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Related Words for jejune
arid, banal, barren, bland, childish, dull, empty, flat, inane, innocuous, insipid, juvenile, meager, sterile, trite, unexciting, vapidExamples from the Web for jejune
Contemporary Examples of jejune
Well, at least he came to see how jejune his earlier view was.
My money is on Crusading Carly to oust the jejune and pointless Barbara Boxer.
So there we have it: My money is on Crusading Carly to oust the jejune and pointless Barbara Boxer.
Historical Examples of jejune
All the native annalists are jejune to an exasperating degree.
Ireland under the Tudors, Volume I (of II)Richard Bagwell
The stuff was undeniably poor, though it was not so jejune as it seemed to Kent.
CynthiaLeonard Merrick
The only thing to be regretted in the volume is the arid and jejune character of the style.
A Critic in Pall MallOscar Wilde
How jejune and inconsiderable it seems in comparison with your great system!
The Letters of William James, Vol. IIWilliam James
After some jejune remarks upon this question he drops into theology and winds up with a little sermon.
Flowers of FreethoughtGeorge W. Foote
jejune
adjective
Word Origin for jejune
C17: from Latin jējūnus hungry, empty
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