A fork of Rural Dictionary
One of those words that are found in a vocabulary textbook
Means childish, juvenile
His jejune behavior made him seem as mature as a two year old.
It’s origin is the Latin word jejunus , which means without food, barren, so Jejune Literally means to intellectually starve to death.
Watching Fox News is very jejune.
The worst word in the English language, jejune just bleeds pomposity and snobbery. If you seriously use jejune in a sentence you a) are automatically an asshole and b) should be slapped across the mouth.
"I detected a jejune air that had not irked me before."- Brideshead Revisited
A word that sounds so terrible and random, that it is a top competitor for the worst word in the English language.
Does this word really sound like something that describes "naive, simplistic, and superficial"?
Of course not.
There are 2 types of people in the world who use the word "jejune".
1. Those who deserve to be slapped.
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