jejune
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9.9
- adjective
- /dʒɪˈdʒuːn/
- Formal
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insípido
- Many found her presentation jejune, lacking the depth that was expected.
Examples
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Yet we are encouraged towards naivete and foolishness in American yoga culture, which celebrates doe-eyed, jejune attitudes as "spiritual" and denigrates skepticism or critical thinking as "judgment" or "hate."
Blog text (10) -
I recall the reflexively contemptuous comment of academic colleagues that O'Hara's coupling of Hemingway with Shakespeare was as jejune.
Academic text (1997) -
Um, it was interesting... in a jejune way at best.
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Inspector Hammer, if I were you I would not be quite so jejune.
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He was asked the most jejune, obvious question every Republican is asked in any race for any office.
Blog text (6) -
If that goal sounds jejune, one has only to survey the history of encounters between foreign cultures around the world to realize how rare it actually is.
Academic text (1992) -
That is incredibly jejune.
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Above all, he sets himself to defend ballet against the call for realism, against "Fokine's unnecessary, superficial, and jejune attempt to dramatize ballet" by converting the academic steps into psychological mimodrama.
Academic text (1991) -
In a less virulent and less jejune formulation, however, the same animus toward America, capitalism, and the whole bourgeois ethos marks much of the culturati of the twentieth century, particularly since the 1960s.
Academic text (1995) -
His jejune remarks during the meeting made it hard to take him seriously.
Synonyms
182
1.3
Not interesting or lively
61
4.2
Acting in an immature or childish way
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6.1
Dull and showing little energy
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4.4
Showing immature or childish behavior
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7.3
Having little taste and being boring
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7.9
Ordinary and dull without imagination or excitement
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9.1
Seeming childish and showing little maturity
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8.1
Having no real meaning or importance
Not interesting and lacking depth or energy
Dull and showing little energy or interest
Not bright in color and not very interesting
Antonyms
How Interesting
Surface Forms
Etymology
Jejune comes from the old Latin word jejunus, which meant 'fasting' or 'hungry' and then 'empty' or 'poor'. So if something is jejune, it feels empty of real content or ideas, which is why it now means dull and uninteresting.