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je·june    Audio Help   [ji-joon] Pronunciation Key
–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]

je·june·ly, adverb
je·june·ness, je·ju·ni·ty, noun
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je·june    Audio Help   (jə-jōōn')  Pronunciation Key 
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.
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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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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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