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jejune
adjective
1 jejune
Of insufficient quantity to meet a need:
— The jejune diets of the very poor.
synonyms: inadequate, poor, short.
Roget 640:
insufficient,
inadequate;
too little
etc.
32;
not enough
etc.
639;
unequal to;
incompetent
etc.
(impotent)
158;
weighed in the balance and found wanting;"
perfunctory
etc.
(neglect)
460;
deficient
etc.
(incomplete)
53;
wanting,
etc.
v.;
imperfect
etc.
651;
ill-furnished,
ill-provided,
ill-stored,
ill-off.
slack,
at a low ebb;
empty,
vacant,
bare;
short of,
out of,
destitute of,
devoid of,
bereft of
etc.
789;
denuded of;
dry,
drained.
unprovided,
unsupplied†,
unfurnished;
unreplenished,
unfed†;
unstored†,
untreasured†;
empty-handed.
meager,
poor,
thin,
scrimp,
sparing,
spare,
stinted;
starved,
starving;
halfstarved,
famine-stricken,
famished;
jejune.
scant
etc.
(small)
32;
scarce;
not to be had,
not to be had for love or money,
not to be had at any price;
scurvy;
stingy
etc.
819;
at the end of one's tether;
without resources
etc.
632;
in want
etc.
(poor)
804;
in debt
etc.
806.
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Roget 575:
feeble,
bald,
tame,
meager,
jejune,
vapid,
bland,
trashy,
lukewarm,
cold,
frigid,
poor,
dull,
dry,
languid;
colorless,
enervated;
proposing,
prosy,
prosaic;
unvaried,
monotonous,
weak,
washy,
wishy-washy;
sketchy,
slight.
careless,
slovenly,
loose,
lax
(negligent)
460;
slipshod,
slipslop†;
inexact;
puerile,
childish;
flatulent;
rambling
etc.
(diffuse)
573.
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2 jejune
3 jejune
Lacking interest or significance or impact:
— Jejune novel.
synonym: insipid.
Moby thesaurus: Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, acarpous, ankle-deep, arid, ascetic, attenuated, austere, banal, barren, blah, bland, blank, bloodless, cadaverous, celibate, characterless, childless, cold, colorless, corpselike, cursory, dead, depthless, desert, desolate, dilute, diluted, dismal, draggy, drained, drearisome, dreary, dried-up, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, dwarfed, dwarfish, effete, elephantine, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, empty, empty-headed, empty-minded, empty-pated, empty-skulled, epidermal, etiolated, exhausted, exiguous, fade, fallow, flat, flavorless, frugal, fruitless, gaunt, gelded, gruelly, haggard, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, hollow-eyed, impotent, impoverished, inane, indifferent, ineffectual, inexcitable, infecund, infertile, innocuous, insipid, issueless, knee-deep, leached, leaden, lean, lifeless, light, limited, low-spirited, marantic, marasmic, meager, mean, menopausal, mild, milk-and-water, miserly, namby-pamby, narrow, niggardly, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, not deep, on the surface, pale, pallid, paltry, pappy, parsimonious, peaked, peaky, pedestrian, pinched, plodding, pointless, poky, ponderous, poor, pulpy, puny, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, sapless, savorless, scant, scanty, scatterbrained, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, shallow, shallow-rooted, shoal, shriveled, sine prole, skeletal, skimp, skimpy, skin-deep, slender, slight, slim, slow, small, solemn, spare, sparing, spiceless, spiritless, stale, starvation, starved, starveling, sterile, stiff, stingy, stinted, stodgy, straitened, stuffy, stunted, subsistence, sucked dry, superficial, surface, tabetic, tabid, tasteless, tedious, teemless, tenuous, thin, trivial, uncultivated, underfed, undernourished, unfertile, unflavored, unfruitful, unlively, unnourishing, unnutritious, unplowed, unproductive, unprofound, unprolific, unsavory, unsown, untilled, vacant, vacuous, vapid, virgin, washy, waste, wasted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, weazeny, wishy-washy, withered, without issue, wizened, wooden, wraithlike ... show more.
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