jejune

[ji-joon] /dʒɪˈdʒun/

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

1605-15; < Latin jējūnus empty, poor, mean

Related forms

jejunely, adverb

jejuneness, jejunity, noun

Can be confused

jejune, juvenile.

Examples from the web for jejune

Inconsistencies of character and plot mar this lively but jejune debut.
Without vigour or colour, without grace or ornament, his style is singularly jejune and feeble.
There's more than a touch of the jejune to these happily rough-hewn clothes.
The analysis may seem hopelessly jejune, not least because digital distribution of books has already begun.
That famously awful overheated jejune stuff.
Of course, most of the field work is puerile, hopelessly jejune.
That would be amusing, if a little jejune.
Hence it is as common a thing to hear our orators condemned for being too jejune and feeble as too excessive and redundant.
He is a decent man, though somewhat jejune and really quite smart.
Only to the jejune and blissfully ignorant members of your staff.

British Dictionary definitions for jejune

/dʒɪˈdʒuːn/

adjective

simple; naive; unsophisticated

insipid; dull; dry

lacking nourishment; insubstantial or barren

Derived Forms

jejunely, adverb
jejuneness, jejunity, noun

Word Origin

C17: from Latin jējūnus hungry, empty

Word Origin and History for jejune

adj.

1610s, "dull in the mind, flat, insipid," from Latin ieiunus "empty, dry, barren," literally "fasting, hungry," of obscure origin.