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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;" ... show more

Roget 575: feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, bland, trashy, lukewarm, cold, frigid, poor, dull, dry, ... show more

2 jejune

Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity:
— Jejune responses to our problems.

synonyms: adolescent, juvenile, puerile.

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 ... show more.

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