jejune
Adjective Satellite
- lacking in nutritive value
- "the jejune diets of the very poor"
- displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
- "jejune responses to our problems"
- lacking interest or significance or impact
- "jejune novel"
Adj
- Not nutritious.
- Lacking matter; empty; devoid of substance.
- Naive; simplistic.
Adjective
- Lacking in maturity or substance; naive, childish, or uninteresting.
Examples
- His JEJUNE strategy consisted of only playing two-letter Words With Friends words, without thought for bonuses.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Latin iēiūnus (“fasting”).
Synonyms
adolescent, insipid, insubstantial, juvenile, puerile, Panglossian, Panglossic, artless, born yesterday, callow, childlike, clueless, credulous, cute, dewy-eyed, dry, fleeceable, green, guileless, immature, ingenuous, innocent, jejune, poor, quaint, simple, simple-hearted, simple-minded, starry-eyed, unaffected, undesigning, unpretentious, unsophisticated, untested, unworldly, virgin, wet behind the ears, wide-eyed
Scrabble Score: 20
jejune: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordjejune: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
jejune: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary