Definition of jejune in English:

jejune

adjective dʒɪˈdʒuːndʒəˈdʒun

1Naive, simplistic, and superficial.
天真的；幼稚的；肤浅的，浅薄的
their entirely predictable and usually jejune opinions
他们那些完全能够预料到且通常是见识浅薄的看法。
Example sentencesExamples
- You have to ask yourself why is that and quite frankly when it comes to Tracey, although one or two of her pieces have a certain odd, jejune quality, her art work is essentially a peg on which she hangs her media persona which is her main work.
- Every time there's an event that brings forth a manifestation of religious belief by large numbers of people, some militant secularist or other will give out an opinion that would be jejune coming from an intelligent sixth-former.
- Like Whitman's poetry, Elvrum's lyrics are often as elementary as a child's jejune rambling, and yet, in their simplicity, they're sturdy, sophisticated, and poignantly inquisitive.
- We've all perfected the wasp-wave; you flick your hand with a disinterested languor - just think Oscar Wilde dismissing a jejune insult - and the wind distracts the wasp for a second or two.
- The soprano playing the part of the Woodbird clumsily ‘flies’ a replica avian on a fishing rod - the whole scene looks jejune and ridiculous.
Synonyms
immature, inexperienced, naive, green, as green as grass, born yesterday, raw, unseasoned, untrained, untried
naive, simple, innocent, artless, guileless, unworldly, childlike, ingenuous, unsophisticated
2(of ideas or writings) dry and uninteresting.
（想法或写作）枯燥乏味的，空洞的
Example sentencesExamples
- Or perhaps your superiors realized that your rhetoric is sloppy, tendentious, jejune and banal, and they think - correctly - that this reflects on your employer, the FBI.
- Seldon's authors, half of them academics, half journalists, are competent and fall down only in their often jejune judgments.
- Contemporary reflections on Stauffenberg risk seeming rather jejune.
Synonyms
boring, dull, dull as ditchwater, tedious, dreary

Derivatives

jejunely

adverb

Only when I worked to become more open-minded, and find the positive in these people, did I stop jejunely stereotyping them as one-dimensional wastes, and feel less hateful.
Example sentencesExamples
- This was as jejunely infantile as it was mendacious.
- And this is so jejunely expressed that it is far from clear that it is really inconsistent with what he is dismissing.
- However, the French law is rooted in a century-old tradition of separating church and state that cannot and should not be jejunely abandoned.
- Bon Voyage tries, further, to propose that sociopolitical chaos and dramatic farce may be synonymous, but such a conceit is jejunely clever more than it is morally adventurous.

jejuneness

noun dʒɪˈdʒuːnnəsdʒəˈdʒunnəs

When an artist is as deliciously ironic as Beck, he treads a fine line between acerbic wittiness and jejuneness and luckily stays on the winning side.
Example sentencesExamples
- Their outward jejuneness belies an insatiable evil within and that makes them perfect monsters (no makeup needed) that scare us mostly because they take their jobs so seriously and work around the clock to perfect their skills.
- Philosophy is Atheistic or Christian, poetry is Catholic, and egotistic and mercantile jejuneness are Protestant.
- The radio award ceremony that each year strains the limits of ennui, explodes with a glittering array of tedium, blazes new trails in vapidity, and pushes the envelope of jejuneness.
- The final ‘nah-nah-nah-nah’ chorus from Hey Jude was the sonic statement of its jejuneness.’

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin jejunus 'fasting, barren'. The original sense was 'without food', hence 'not intellectually nourishing'.

dinner from Middle English:
Our words dine (Middle English) and dinner are both from the same root, Old French desjeuner ‘to have breakfast’, which survives in modern French as déjeuner, ‘lunch’, and petit déjeuner, ‘breakfast’. The root was jëun ‘fasting’, which goes back to Latin jejunus ‘fasting, barren’ found also in jejune (early 17th century) which originally meant ‘without food’ and then ‘not intellectually nourishing’. In Australia, New Zealand, and Canada to be done like a dinner is to be utterly defeated or outwitted—the British equivalent is done like a kipper. The messy and unappetizing appearance of food set out for a dog is behind the expressions a dog's dinner (or breakfast), meaning ‘a poor piece of work’ a mess', and dressed up like a dog's dinner, ‘wearing ridiculously smart or ostentatious clothes’, which date from the 1930s.

Rhymes

afternoon, attune, autoimmune, baboon, balloon, bassoon, bestrewn, boon, Boone, bridoon, buffoon, Cameroon, Cancún, cardoon, cartoon, Changchun, cocoon, commune, croon, doubloon, dragoon, dune, festoon, galloon, goon, harpoon, hoon, immune, importune, impugn, Irgun, June, Kowloon, lagoon, lampoon, loon, macaroon, maroon, monsoon, moon, Muldoon, noon, oppugn, picayune, platoon, poltroon, pontoon, poon, prune, puccoon, raccoon, Rangoon, ratoon, rigadoon, rune, saloon, Saskatoon, Sassoon, Scone, soon, spittoon, spoon, swoon, Troon, tune, tycoon, typhoon, Walloon

Definition of jejune in US English:

jejune

adjectivejəˈjo͞ondʒəˈdʒun

1Naive, simplistic, and superficial.
天真的；幼稚的；肤浅的，浅薄的
their entirely predictable and usually jejune opinions
他们那些完全能够预料到且通常是见识浅薄的看法。
Example sentencesExamples
- Every time there's an event that brings forth a manifestation of religious belief by large numbers of people, some militant secularist or other will give out an opinion that would be jejune coming from an intelligent sixth-former.
- The soprano playing the part of the Woodbird clumsily ‘flies’ a replica avian on a fishing rod - the whole scene looks jejune and ridiculous.
- We've all perfected the wasp-wave; you flick your hand with a disinterested languor - just think Oscar Wilde dismissing a jejune insult - and the wind distracts the wasp for a second or two.
- Like Whitman's poetry, Elvrum's lyrics are often as elementary as a child's jejune rambling, and yet, in their simplicity, they're sturdy, sophisticated, and poignantly inquisitive.
- You have to ask yourself why is that and quite frankly when it comes to Tracey, although one or two of her pieces have a certain odd, jejune quality, her art work is essentially a peg on which she hangs her media persona which is her main work.
Synonyms
immature, inexperienced, naive, green, as green as grass, born yesterday, raw, unseasoned, untrained, untried
naive, simple, innocent, artless, guileless, unworldly, childlike, ingenuous, unsophisticated
2(of ideas or writings) dry and uninteresting.
（想法或写作）枯燥乏味的，空洞的
the poem seems to me rather jejune
我认为这些诗歌相当乏味。
Example sentencesExamples
- Contemporary reflections on Stauffenberg risk seeming rather jejune.
- Or perhaps your superiors realized that your rhetoric is sloppy, tendentious, jejune and banal, and they think - correctly - that this reflects on your employer, the FBI.
- Seldon's authors, half of them academics, half journalists, are competent and fall down only in their often jejune judgments.
Synonyms
boring, dull, dull as ditchwater, tedious, dreary

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin jejunus ‘fasting, barren’. The original sense was ‘without food’, hence ‘not intellectually nourishing’.

词汇	jejune
释义	Definition of jejune in English: jejune adjective dʒɪˈdʒuːndʒəˈdʒun 1Naive, simplistic, and superficial. 天真的；幼稚的；肤浅的，浅薄的 their entirely predictable and usually jejune opinions 他们那些完全能够预料到且通常是见识浅薄的看法。 Example sentencesExamples You have to ask yourself why is that and quite frankly when it comes to Tracey, although one or two of her pieces have a certain odd, jejune quality, her art work is essentially a peg on which she hangs her media persona which is her main work. Every time there's an event that brings forth a manifestation of religious belief by large numbers of people, some militant secularist or other will give out an opinion that would be jejune coming from an intelligent sixth-former. Like Whitman's poetry, Elvrum's lyrics are often as elementary as a child's jejune rambling, and yet, in their simplicity, they're sturdy, sophisticated, and poignantly inquisitive. We've all perfected the wasp-wave; you flick your hand with a disinterested languor - just think Oscar Wilde dismissing a jejune insult - and the wind distracts the wasp for a second or two. The soprano playing the part of the Woodbird clumsily ‘flies’ a replica avian on a fishing rod - the whole scene looks jejune and ridiculous. Synonyms immature, inexperienced, naive, green, as green as grass, born yesterday, raw, unseasoned, untrained, untried naive, simple, innocent, artless, guileless, unworldly, childlike, ingenuous, unsophisticated 2(of ideas or writings) dry and uninteresting. （想法或写作）枯燥乏味的，空洞的 Example sentencesExamples Or perhaps your superiors realized that your rhetoric is sloppy, tendentious, jejune and banal, and they think - correctly - that this reflects on your employer, the FBI. Seldon's authors, half of them academics, half journalists, are competent and fall down only in their often jejune judgments. Contemporary reflections on Stauffenberg risk seeming rather jejune. Synonyms boring, dull, dull as ditchwater, tedious, dreary Derivatives jejunely adverb Only when I worked to become more open-minded, and find the positive in these people, did I stop jejunely stereotyping them as one-dimensional wastes, and feel less hateful. Example sentencesExamples This was as jejunely infantile as it was mendacious. And this is so jejunely expressed that it is far from clear that it is really inconsistent with what he is dismissing. However, the French law is rooted in a century-old tradition of separating church and state that cannot and should not be jejunely abandoned. Bon Voyage tries, further, to propose that sociopolitical chaos and dramatic farce may be synonymous, but such a conceit is jejunely clever more than it is morally adventurous. jejuneness noun dʒɪˈdʒuːnnəsdʒəˈdʒunnəs When an artist is as deliciously ironic as Beck, he treads a fine line between acerbic wittiness and jejuneness and luckily stays on the winning side. Example sentencesExamples Their outward jejuneness belies an insatiable evil within and that makes them perfect monsters (no makeup needed) that scare us mostly because they take their jobs so seriously and work around the clock to perfect their skills. Philosophy is Atheistic or Christian, poetry is Catholic, and egotistic and mercantile jejuneness are Protestant. The radio award ceremony that each year strains the limits of ennui, explodes with a glittering array of tedium, blazes new trails in vapidity, and pushes the envelope of jejuneness. The final ‘nah-nah-nah-nah’ chorus from Hey Jude was the sonic statement of its jejuneness.’ Origin Early 17th century: from Latin jejunus 'fasting, barren'. The original sense was 'without food', hence 'not intellectually nourishing'. dinner from Middle English: Our words dine (Middle English) and dinner are both from the same root, Old French desjeuner ‘to have breakfast’, which survives in modern French as déjeuner, ‘lunch’, and petit déjeuner, ‘breakfast’. The root was jëun ‘fasting’, which goes back to Latin jejunus ‘fasting, barren’ found also in jejune (early 17th century) which originally meant ‘without food’ and then ‘not intellectually nourishing’. In Australia, New Zealand, and Canada to be done like a dinner is to be utterly defeated or outwitted—the British equivalent is done like a kipper. The messy and unappetizing appearance of food set out for a dog is behind the expressions a dog's dinner (or breakfast), meaning ‘a poor piece of work’ a mess', and dressed up like a dog's dinner, ‘wearing ridiculously smart or ostentatious clothes’, which date from the 1930s. Rhymes afternoon, attune, autoimmune, baboon, balloon, bassoon, bestrewn, boon, Boone, bridoon, buffoon, Cameroon, Cancún, cardoon, cartoon, Changchun, cocoon, commune, croon, doubloon, dragoon, dune, festoon, galloon, goon, harpoon, hoon, immune, importune, impugn, Irgun, June, Kowloon, lagoon, lampoon, loon, macaroon, maroon, monsoon, moon, Muldoon, noon, oppugn, picayune, platoon, poltroon, pontoon, poon, prune, puccoon, raccoon, Rangoon, ratoon, rigadoon, rune, saloon, Saskatoon, Sassoon, Scone, soon, spittoon, spoon, swoon, Troon, tune, tycoon, typhoon, Walloon Definition of jejune in US English: jejune adjectivejəˈjo͞ondʒəˈdʒun 1Naive, simplistic, and superficial. 天真的；幼稚的；肤浅的，浅薄的 their entirely predictable and usually jejune opinions 他们那些完全能够预料到且通常是见识浅薄的看法。 Example sentencesExamples Every time there's an event that brings forth a manifestation of religious belief by large numbers of people, some militant secularist or other will give out an opinion that would be jejune coming from an intelligent sixth-former. The soprano playing the part of the Woodbird clumsily ‘flies’ a replica avian on a fishing rod - the whole scene looks jejune and ridiculous. We've all perfected the wasp-wave; you flick your hand with a disinterested languor - just think Oscar Wilde dismissing a jejune insult - and the wind distracts the wasp for a second or two. Like Whitman's poetry, Elvrum's lyrics are often as elementary as a child's jejune rambling, and yet, in their simplicity, they're sturdy, sophisticated, and poignantly inquisitive. You have to ask yourself why is that and quite frankly when it comes to Tracey, although one or two of her pieces have a certain odd, jejune quality, her art work is essentially a peg on which she hangs her media persona which is her main work. Synonyms immature, inexperienced, naive, green, as green as grass, born yesterday, raw, unseasoned, untrained, untried naive, simple, innocent, artless, guileless, unworldly, childlike, ingenuous, unsophisticated 2(of ideas or writings) dry and uninteresting. （想法或写作）枯燥乏味的，空洞的 the poem seems to me rather jejune 我认为这些诗歌相当乏味。 Example sentencesExamples Contemporary reflections on Stauffenberg risk seeming rather jejune. Or perhaps your superiors realized that your rhetoric is sloppy, tendentious, jejune and banal, and they think - correctly - that this reflects on your employer, the FBI. Seldon's authors, half of them academics, half journalists, are competent and fall down only in their often jejune judgments. Synonyms boring, dull, dull as ditchwater, tedious, dreary Origin Early 17th century: from Latin jejunus ‘fasting, barren’. The original sense was ‘without food’, hence ‘not intellectually nourishing’.
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