Jejune

Word: Jejune

Part of Speech: Adjective.

Definition: Jejune can mean naive, insipid, or devoid in nutritional value (as in diet). However, all of these definitions share the general idea of lacking something in common, whether it be maturity or complexity.

Synonyms: Childish, barren.

Antonyms: Adult.

Helpful hints to remember: This word possesses a Latin origin, but resembles the French word “jeune”, which means young.

Sentences:

• The biology freshman kept a notebook filled with jejune ideas that he hoped to one day investigate.
• Phil insisted that he wanted to be an artist, but his parents worried that no one would buy his jejune drawings that seemed to lack any inspiration.
• “I have often wondered why some late Writers should sensure (sic) Tully's Letters for being too naked and jejune, when that to his Friend Lucceius, which the Reader will find in this Collection, is a plain Demonstration to the contrary?”