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UK
/dʒˈɛdʒjuːn/
]
[ US /ˌdʒɛˈdʒun/ ]
[ US /ˌdʒɛˈdʒun/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
lacking interest or significance or impact
an insipid personality
jejune novel -
of insufficient quantity to meet a need
short on experience
money is short
food is in short supply
on short rations
an inadequate income
the jejune diets of the very poor
a poor salary -
displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
jejune responses to our problems
puerile jokes
adolescent insecurity
their behavior was juvenile
How To Use jejune In A Sentence
- Too often their prose is jejune and lazy. Times, Sunday Times
- My grandfather in Uganda - bless his soul - believes the munching of fish to be a jejune activity.
- Every time there's an event that brings forth a manifestation of religious belief by large numbers of people, some militant secularist or other will give out an opinion that would be jejune coming from an intelligent sixth-former.
- jejune novel
- He is still apparently too jejune to face the Sunday talk-show circuit. Times, Sunday Times
- jejune responses to our problems
- They were of great service in correcting my jejune generalizations.
- Seldon's authors, half of them academics, half journalists, are competent and fall down only in their often jejune judgments.
- On one level, this declaration might seem jejune, petulant. Christianity Today
- the jejune diets of the very poor
