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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective jejune has 3 senses
- jejune(s = adj.all) insubstantial - lacking in nutritive value; "the jejune diets of the very poor" Derived forms noun jejuneness3, noun jejunity2
- jejune(s = adj.all) adolescent, juvenile, puerile - displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes" Derived forms noun jejuneness1, noun jejunity1
- jejune(s = adj.all) insipid - lacking interest or significance or impact; "an insipid personality"; "jejune novel" Derived forms noun jejuneness2, noun jejunity1
CIDE DICTIONARY
jejune, a. [L. jejunus fasting, hungry, dry, barren, scanty; of unknown origin.].
- Lacking matter; empty; void of substance. [1913 Webster]
- Void of interest; barren; meager; dry; as, a jejune narrative.
- Juvenile; childish; immature. [PJC]
- Lacking nutritional value. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
jejune, adj.
1 intellectually unsatisfying; shallow.
2 puerile.
3 (of ideas, writings, etc.) meagre, scanty; dry and uninteresting.
4 (of the land) barren, poor.
1 intellectually unsatisfying; shallow.
2 puerile.
3 (of ideas, writings, etc.) meagre, scanty; dry and uninteresting.
4 (of the land) barren, poor.
Derivative
jejunely adv. jejuneness n.
Etymology
orig. = fasting, f. L jejunus
THESAURUS
jejune
Lenten, Spartan, 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, 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, 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, wraithlikeROGET THESAURUS
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Feebleness
N feebleness, feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, bland, trashy, lukewarm, cold, frigid, poor, dull, dry, languid, colorless, enervated, proposing, prosy, prosaic, unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy- washy, sketchy, slight, careless, slovenly, loose, lax (negligent), slipshod, slipslop, inexact, puerile, childish, flatulent, rambling.Insufficiency
N insufficiency, inadequacy, inadequateness, incompetence, deficiency, imperfection, shortcoming, paucity, stint, scantiness, none to spare, bare subsistence, scarcity, dearth, want, need, lack, poverty, exigency, inanition, starvation, famine, drought, dole, mite, pittance, short allowance, short commons, half rations, banyan day, emptiness, poorness, depletion, vacancy, flaccidity, ebb tide, low water, a beggarly account of empty boxes, indigence, insolvency, drain of resources, impoverish, stint, put on short allowance, do insufficiently, scotch the snake, Adj, insufficient, inadequate, too little, not enough, unequal to, incompetent, weighed in the balance and found wanting, perfunctory, deficient, wanting imperfect, ill-furnished, ill-provided, ill- stored, ill-off, slack, at a low ebb, empty, vacant, bare, short of, out of, destitute of, devoid of, bereft of, denuded of, dry, drained, unprovided, unsupplied, unfurnished, unreplenished, unfed, unstored, untreasured, empty-handed, meager, poor, thin, scrimp, sparing, spare, stinted, starved, starving, halfstarved, famine-stricken, famished, jejune, scant, scarce, not to be had, not to be had for love or money, not to be had at any price, scurvy, stingy, at the end of one's tether, without resources, in want, in debt, insufficiently, in default of, for want of, failing, semper avarus eget.
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