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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 jéjūnus empty, poor, mean

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—Related forms

je·june·ly, adverb

je·june·ness, je·ju·ni·ty, noun

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adj.

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

[From Latin iēiūnus, meager, dry, fasting.]

je·june'ly adv., je·june'ness n.

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jejune

1615, "dull in the mind, flat, insipid," from L. jejunus "empty, dry, barren," lit. "hungry," of obscure origin.

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jejune
adjective
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]
3.	lacking interest or significance or impact; "an insipid personality"; "jejune novel" [syn: insipid]

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Jejune

Dine\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dined; p. pr. & vb. n. Dining.] [F. d[^i]ner, OF. disner, LL. disnare, contr. fr. an assumed disjunare; dis- + an assumed junare (OF. juner) to fast, for L. jejunare, fr. jejunus fasting. See Jejune, and cf. Dinner, D?jeuner.] To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.

Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep. --Shak.

To dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without dinner; -- a phrase common in Elizabethan literature, said to be from the practice of the poor gentry, who beguiled the dinner hour by a promenade near the tomb of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in Old Saint Paul's.

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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.

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