jejuneness

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je·june (j

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adj.

1. Not interesting; dull: "and there pour forth jejune words and useless empty phrases" (Anthony Trollope).

2. Lacking maturity; childish: surprised by their jejune responses to our problems.

3. Lacking in nutrition: a jejune diet.

[From Latin iinus, meager, dry, fasting.]

je·junely adv.

je·juneness n.

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Noun	1.	jejuneness - lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life callowness, juvenility immatureness, immaturity - not having reached maturity
	2.	jejuneness - the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated jejunity, tameness, vapidity, vapidness dullness - the quality of lacking interestingness; "the stories were of a dullness to bring a buffalo to its knees"
	3.	jejuneness - quality of lacking nutritive value jejunity unwholesomeness, morbidness, morbidity - the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you

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