Jejune Definition

jə-jo͝on
adjective
Not nourishing; barren.
Webster's New World
Not interesting or satisfying; dull or empty.
Webster's New World
Not mature; childish.
Webster's New World
Lacking in nutrition.
A jejune diet.
American Heritage Medicine

Not nutritious.

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Origin of Jejune

  • From Latin iēiūnus meager, dry, fasting

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin iēiūnus.

    From Wiktionary

Jejune Sentence Examples

  • You don't write a jejune collection of hodgepodge letters and numbers like these.

  • It seems simple, almost jejune; so thin and weak that one wonders how it can have formed the foundation for a system so mighty in its historical results.

  • Gassendi's jejune Life (Paris, 1654) is thus the earliest extant of any note.

  • There is now and then an energetic phrase, but as a whole the vocabulary is jejune; the sentences are overloaded; the pitch is flat.

  • In Clark [View] it was said that it would be ' jejune and inappropriate ' for the courts to second-guess academic judgment.

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Words Starting With

JJEJEJ

Words Ending With

ENEUNE

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With J6 Letter Words Ending With E