jejune
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- lacking in nutritive value
- "the jejune diets of the very poor"
- displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
- "jejune responses to our problems"
- lacking interest or significance or impact
- "jejune novel"
Adj
- Not nutritious.
- Lacking matter; empty; devoid of substance.
- Naive; simplistic.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Latin iēiūnus (“fasting”).
Synonyms
adolescent, artless, born yesterday, childlike, clueless, credulous, cute, dewy-eyed, dry, fleeceable, green, guileless, immature, ingenuous, innocent, insipid, insubstantial, jejune, juvenile, Panglossian, Panglossic, poor, puerile, quaint, simple, simple-hearted, simple-minded, starry-eyed, unaffected, undesigning, unpretentious, unsophisticated, untested, unworldly, virgin, wet behind the ears, wide-eyed
Scrabble Score: 20
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