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Jejune

Jejune Meaning & Definition
Jejune Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Jejune?

[adj] lacking interest or significance; "an insipid personality"; "jejune novel"
[adj] displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes"
[adj] lacking in nutritive value; "the jejune diets of the very poor"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Jejune: adolescent | immature | insipid | insubstantial | juvenile | puerile | uninteresting | unwholesome

Related Terms | Find terms related to Jejune: abstemious | acarpous | ankle-deep | arid | ascetic | attenuated | austere | banal | barren | blah | bland | blank | bloodless | cadaverous | celibate | characterless | childless | cold | colorless | corpselike | cursory | dead | depthless | desert | desolate | dilute | diluted | dismal | draggy | drained | drearisome | dreary | dried-up | dry | dryasdust | dull | dusty | dwarfed | dwarfish | effete | elephantine | emacerated | emaciate | emaciated | empty | empty-headed | empty-minded | empty-pated | empty-skulled | epidermal | etiolated | exhausted | exiguous | fade | fallow | flat | flavorless | frugal | fruitless | gaunt | gelded | gruelly | haggard | heavy | ho-hum | hollow | hollow-eyed | impotent | impoverished | inane | indifferent | ineffectual | inexcitable | infecund | infertile | innocuous | insipid | issueless | knee-deep | leached | leaden | lean | Lenten | lifeless | light | limited | low-spirited | marantic | marasmic | meager | mean | menopausal | mild | milk-and-water | miserly | namby-pamby | narrow | niggardly | nonfertile | nonproducing | nonproductive | nonprolific | not deep | on the surface | pale | pallid | paltry | pappy | parsimonious | peaked | peaky | pedestrian | pinched | plodding | pointless | poky | ponderous | poor | pulpy | puny | rattlebrained | rattleheaded | sapless | savorless | scant | scanty | scatterbrained | scrawny | scrimp | scrimpy | shallow | shallow-rooted | shoal | shriveled | sine prole | skeletal | skimp | skimpy | skin-deep | slender | slight | slim | slow | small | solemn | spare | sparing | Spartan | spiceless | spiritless | stale | starvation | starved | starveling | sterile | stiff | stingy | stinted | stodgy | straitened | stuffy | stunted | subsistence | sucked dry | superficial | surface | tabetic | tabid | tasteless | tedious | teemless | tenuous | thin | trivial | uncultivated | underfed | undernourished | unfertile | unflavored | unfruitful | unlively | unnourishing | unnutritious | unplowed | unproductive | unprofound | unprolific | unsavory | unsown | untilled | vacant | vacuous | vapid | virgin | washy | waste | wasted | watered | watered-down | watery | weak | weazeny | wishy-washy | withered | without issue | wizened | wooden | wraithlike

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Jejune In Webster's Dictionary

\Je*june"\, a. [L. jejunus fasting, hungry, dry, barren, scanty; of unknown origin.] 1. Lacking matter; empty; void of substance. 2. Void of interest; barren; meager; dry; as, a jejune narrative. - {Je*june"ly}, adv. -- {Je*june"ness}, n. --Bacon.

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