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Definition of Jejune
1. Adjective. Lacking in nutritive value. "The jejune diets of the very poor"
2. Adjective. Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity. "Puerile jokes"
Similar to: Immature
Derivative terms: Jejuneness, Jejunity, Juvenility, Puerility
3. Adjective. Lacking interest or significance or impact. "Jejune novel"
Definition of Jejune
1. a. Lacking matter; empty; void of substance.
Definition of Jejune
1. Adjective. Not nutritious. ¹
2. Adjective. Lacking matter; empty; devoid of substance. ¹
3. Adjective. Naive; simplistic. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jejune
1. uninteresting; childish [adj] : JEJUNELY [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jejune
Literary usage of Jejune
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"—Josephine Young Case, Atlantic, May 1946 jejune Todd & Hancock 1986 call ...
Nevertheless, jejune seems to be capable of breaking out in any of several ..."
2. Narrative and Critical History of America by Justin Winsor (1889)
"... and there was some color for their detraction in some rather jejune expositions
of the Hebrew Scriptures contained in the book. The physiolo. ..."
3. The Historical Magazine (1859)
"Indeed, so "jejune and feeble" is the article thus admitted into the Magazine,
that the writer in the "Courier and Enquirer'' declares, ..."
4. History of Roman Literature from Its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age by John Colin Dunlop (1827)
"In th- abstruse and jejune philosophical discussions which occupy so large a
proportion o! the poem, it is hardly possible, without a sacrifice of ..."
5. The Vicars of Rochdale by Francis Robert Raines (1883)
"... and that his discourses, from all the specimens seen by him,* appear to have
been extremely jejune and unprofitable, a circumstance which would alone ..."
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