jejune

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  1. adjective Not interesting; dull: "and there pour forth jejune words and useless empty phrases” (Anthony Trollope).
  2. adjective Lacking maturity; childish: surprised by their jejune responses to our problems.
  3. adjective Lacking in nutrition: a jejune diet.

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  • From this point of view his early speeches in particular sound jejune or superfluous. —  William of Germany
  • It is a great proof of the essentially poetical quality of his mind that though he thus often becomes jejune, he is never prosaic. —  Life of John Milton
  • Um. What separates these jejune jollifications from others I've witnessed, either in person or on film, is that they're presided over by the Kandakandero's witchman, their shaman: a most remarkable chap. - —  Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
  • Sipping from a glass of wine, the consulting detective acknowledged the arrival of the universal op and myself with a curt but hardly perfunctory nod before saying to the man in the yellow suit, "When you have eliminated the existential, whatever remains, however jejune, must be truth." —  An East Wind Coming
  • Will someone please call the jejune nutjobs in Seattle and tell them to GROW THE FUCK UP? —  Queerty
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. From Latin iēiūnus, meager, dry, fasting.

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  1. from Latin jejunus, fasting, hungry, barren, empty, dry, feeble, poor: see dine.
 

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