Jejune \Je*june"\, a. [L. jejunus fasting, hungry, dry, barren,
scanty; of unknown origin.]
[1913 Webster]
1. Lacking matter; empty; void of substance.
[1913 Webster]
2. Void of interest; barren; meager; dry; as, a jejune
narrative.
3. Juvenile; childish; immature.
[PJC]
4. Lacking nutritional value.
[PJC] -
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
jejune
adj 1: lacking in nutritive value; "the jejune diets of the very
poor" [syn: insubstantial]
2: displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent
insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their
behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes" [syn: adolescent,
juvenile, puerile]
3: lacking interest or significance; "an insipid personality";
"jejune novel" [syn: insipid]
WordNet (r) 2.0
208 Moby Thesaurus words for "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,
wraithlike
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
adolescent, insipid, insubstantial, juvenile, puerile
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