jejune

Meanings

• having a dull, uninteresting taste or quality; lacking in richness, flavor, or nutritional value

  - "The food at the restaurant was jejune and left us feeling unsatisfied."
  - "The novel had a jejune plot and failed to capture my interest."

• of or relating to jeje; a native or inhabitant of Jeje

  - "The jeje people have a rich cultural heritage that is reflected in their art, music, and literature."
  - "The jeje language is an endangered language with only a few thousand speakers left. Efforts are being made to preserve and document the jeje language before it disappears completely."

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Pronunciation

1. /dʒiˈdʒuːn/
   
   
   
   Source: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5135775"

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Synonyms

dry , insipid , poor

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with jejune
beige , seize , tease , pleaze , fleaze , sneeze , ease , peace , cease , geese , cheese , ease , peace , fleas , sneeze , seize

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Homophones

Words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling,

1. jejune (la) : having a dull, uninteresting taste or quality; lacking in richness, flavor, or nutritional value
   

2. jejune (fr) : delicate, refined; genteel, polite, courteous
   

3. jejune (it) : mild, gentle; delicate, refined; polite, courteous
   

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Variants

List of all variants of jejune that leads to same result
jejune , jejunely , jejuneness , jejunenesses

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Etymology

origin and the way in which meanings have changed throughout history.

The word 'jejune' comes from the Latin word 'jejunum', which means 'intestine' or 'gut'. The word 'jejune' was used in the past to describe food that was unappetizing or lacking in flavor, possibly because it had been prepared using little or no fat or seasoning.

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