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adjectivewithout 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 jejuneFirst recorded in 1605–15, jejune is from the Latin word jējūnus empty, poor, mean OTHER WORDS FROM jejuneje·june·ly, adverbje·june·ness, je·ju·ni·ty, nounWORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH jejunejejune , juvenileWords nearby jejuneJehu, jejun-, jejunal, jejunal and ileal veins, jejunal artery, jejune, jejunectomy, jejunitis, jejuno-, jejunocolostomy, jejunoileal Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for jejuneWell, at least he came to see how jejune his earlier view was. How Robert Nozick Turned on Robert Nozick|Michael Tomasky|May 22, 2012|DAILY BEAST My money is on Crusading Carly to oust the jejune and pointless Barbara Boxer. Bet on California's GOP Amazons|Tunku Varadarajan|June 7, 2010|DAILY BEAST So there we have it: My money is on Crusading Carly to oust the jejune and pointless Barbara Boxer. Bet on California's GOP Amazons|Tunku Varadarajan|June 7, 2010|DAILY BEAST The statement in Mr. Yang's jejune essay that the Chinese give pure silver in exchange for foreign dollars containing 10 per cent. Intimate China|Mrs. Archibald Little
But it is time to leave so jejune a subject, though we may not yet be able to produce what is much more valuable. Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 2|Henry Hallam That is why, for me at any rate, the subject of women's rights is jejune and sterile compared with the subject of this chapter. Woman and Womanhood|C. W. Saleeby He felt a profound revulsion from his own nature, which was flawed with this sentimentalism, this jejune expectancy. Sacrifice|Stephen French Whitman The volume of 1500 had been jejune, written when he knew nothing of Greek; 800 adages put together with scanty elucidations. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7|Various
British Dictionary definitions for jejune
adjectivesimple; naive; unsophisticated insipid; dull; dry lacking nourishment; insubstantial or barren Derived forms of jejunejejunely, adverbjejuneness or jejunity, nounWord Origin for jejuneC17: from Latin jējūnus hungry, empty Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to jejunearid, banal, barren, bland, childish, dull, empty, flat, inane, innocuous, insipid, juvenile, meager, sterile, trite, unexciting, vapid |