English
Pronunciation
IPA|/d���d�u�n/ or /d�i'd�u�n/
Etymology
From Latin ieiunus|i�iūnus
Adjective
jejune
#Not nutritious
#Lacking matter; empty; void of substance.
#:*1917: This renders the recognition of alternatives a paramount necessity for a logic of discovery, which can no longer dismiss them with a jejune chapter on 'disjunctive propositions'. � Charles Joseph Singer, Studies in the History and Method of Science
#:*1955 : Doubtless, too, both grammarians and philosophers have been aware that it is by no means easy to distinguish even questions, commands, and so on from statements by means of the few and jejune grammatical marks available, such as word order, mood, and the like : though perhaps it has not been usual to dwell on the difficulties which this fact obviously raises. - J.L. Austin, How To Do Things With Words
#:*1962: Gradus had long been a member of all sorts of jejune leftist organizations. � Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
#:*1993: I went to the cinema not for entertainment, but for cinematography. For it was only by studying the precise rake of extra-long pans, the trajectory of tracking shots and the jejune emotional appeal of the jump-cut, that I could add to the repertoire of my own internal shoots. � Will Self, My Idea of Fun
Synonyms
insipid
io:jejune
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