27 September 2015
jejune
[ji-joon]
adjective
1. without interest or significance; dull; insipid:
a jejune novel.
2. juvenile; immature; childish:
jejune behavior.
3. lacking knowledge or experience; uninformed:
jejune attempts to design a house.
4. deficient or lacking in nutritive value:
a jejune diet.
Origin of jejune
Latin
1605-1615; < Latin jējūnus empty, poor, mean
Related forms
jejunely, adverb
jejuneness, jejunity, noun
Can be confused
jejune, juvenile.
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Examples from the Web for jejune
Contemporary Examples
My money is on Crusading Carly to oust the jejune and pointless Barbara Boxer.
Bet on California’s GOP Amazons
Tunku Varadarajan
June 6, 2010
Well, at least he came to see how jejune his earlier view was.
How Robert Nozick Turned on Robert Nozick
Michael Tomasky
May 21, 2012
So there we have it: My money is on Crusading Carly to oust the jejune and pointless Barbara Boxer.
Bet on California’s GOP Amazons
Tunku Varadarajan
June 6, 2010
Historical
It is evident to me that Gray meant by this to stigmatise the diction of Joseph Warton, which is jejune, verbose, and poor.
Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
Edmund William Gosse
All the native annalists are jejune to an exasperating degree.
Ireland under the Tudors, Volume I (of II)
Richard Bagwell
But it observed a very high standard of classical English, a little intolerant of neologism, but not stiff nor jejune.
A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)
George Saintsbury
The only thing to be regretted in the volume is the arid and jejune character of the style.
A Critic in Pall Mall
Oscar Wilde
The first verse is by far the best, and every subsequent verse seems to grow more loose and jejune as the composition proceeds.
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 71, No. 437, March 1852
Various
After some jejune remarks upon this question he drops into theology and winds up with a little sermon.
Flowers of Freethought
George W. Foote
Even then the great Florentine occasionally can be jejune enough.
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II)
Henry Osborn Taylor
Today’s quote
Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That’s what makes it what it is.
– Irvine Welsh
On this day
27 September 1540 – The Jesuits (Society of Jesus) founded by Ignatius Loyola.
27 September 1660 – death of St Vincent de Paul, Catholic priest, born in France, who dedicated himself to serving the poor. Born 24 April 1581.
27 September 1722 – birth of Samuel Adams, American revolutionary and founding father. Died 2 October 1803.
27 September 1947 – birth of Marvin Lee Aday, American rocker – otherwise known as Meatloaf.
27 September 1961 – birth of Irvine Welsh, Scottish writer – ‘Train-spotting‘, ‘Ecstasy‘.
27 September 1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald visits Cuban embassy in Mexico to apply for a Cuban visa. The embassy initially denies the visa, stating that the man was not Lee Harvey Oswald. The embassy said he would need Soviet approval. Following scrutiny from the KGB and CIA, and intense debate between the Soviets, Cuba and Oswald (?) the visa was finally issued. Oswald, or the man purporting to be Oswald, never travelled to Cuba, but returned to the U.S. on 3 October 1963 … conspiracy, anyone?