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Synonyms for jejune

Grammar : Adj
Spell : ji-joon
Phonetic Transcription : dʒɪˈdʒun

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Définition of jejune

Origin :
  • 1610s, "dull in the mind, flat, insipid," from Latin ieiunus "empty, dry, barren," literally "fasting, hungry," of obscure origin.
  • adj immature
Example sentences :
  • All the native annalists are jejune to an exasperating degree.
  • Extract from : « Ireland under the Tudors, Volume I (of II) » by Richard Bagwell
  • The stuff was undeniably poor, though it was not so jejune as it seemed to Kent.
  • Extract from : « Cynthia » by Leonard Merrick
  • The only thing to be regretted in the volume is the arid and jejune character of the style.
  • Extract from : « A Critic in Pall Mall » by Oscar Wilde
  • How jejune and inconsiderable it seems in comparison with your great system!
  • Extract from : « The Letters of William James, Vol. II » by William James
  • After some jejune remarks upon this question he drops into theology and winds up with a little sermon.
  • Extract from : « Flowers of Freethought » by George W. Foote
  • The first verse is by far the best, and every subsequent verse seems to grow more loose and jejune as the composition proceeds.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 71, No. 437, March 1852 » by Various
  • Hence it is as common a thing to hear our orators condemned for being too jejune and feeble as too excessive and redundant.
  • Extract from : « Letters of Pliny » by Pliny
  • The reality did not correspond; it transcended his imagination; it painfully demonstrated his jejune crudity.
  • Extract from : « The Roll-Call » by Arnold Bennett
  • Maunders was especially severe upon the novels of young authors, with their affected style and jejune ideas.
  • Extract from : « The King of Schnorrers » by Israel Zangwill
  • It was the jejune insipidity of an entire age, the stale flatness of the world that she felt to the very depths of her soul.
  • Extract from : « The Goose Man » by Jacob Wassermann
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