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je⋅june

  [ji-joon]
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–adjective
1. without interest or significance; dull; insipid: a jejune novel.
2. juvenile; immature; childish: jejune behavior.
3. lacking knowledge or experience; uninformed: jejune attempts to design a house.
4. deficient or lacking in nutritive value: a jejune diet.
Origin:
1605–15; < L jējūnus empty, poor, mean

Related forms:
je⋅june⋅ly, adverb
je⋅june⋅ness, je⋅ju⋅ni⋅ty, noun
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je·june   (jə-jōōn')   
adj.  
  1. Not interesting; dull: "and there pour forth jejune words and useless empty phrases" (Anthony Trollope).
  2. Lacking maturity; childish: surprised by their jejune responses to our problems.
  3. Lacking in nutrition: a jejune diet.

[From Latin iēiūnus, meager, dry, fasting.]
je·june'ly adv., je·june'ness n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Jejune

Je*june"\, a. [L. jejunus fasting, hungry, dry, barren, scanty; of unknown origin.]

1. Lacking matter; empty; void of substance.

2. Void of interest; barren; meager; dry; as, a jejune narrative. - Je*june"ly, adv. -- Je*june"ness, n. --Bacon.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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jejune 
1615, "dull in the mind, flat, insipid," from L. jejunus "empty, dry, barren," lit. "hungry," of obscure origin.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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