Definitions for: 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"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: adolescent, immature, insipid, insubstantial, juvenile, puerile, uninteresting, unwholesome

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