jejune
adjective
[ dʒɪˈdʒuːn ]
• naive, simplistic, and superficial.
• "their entirely predictable and usually jejune opinions"
Similar:
naive,
simple,
innocent,
artless,
guileless,
unworldly,
childlike,
ingenuous,
unsophisticated,
inexperienced,
ignorant,
green,
immature,
callow,
trusting,
trustful,
unsuspicious,
unwary,
unguarded,
credulous,
gullible,
easily taken in,
unaffected,
without airs,
open,
frank,
uninhibited,
natural,
unpretentious,
spontaneous,
down-to-earth,
childish,
juvenile,
puerile,
silly,
infantile,
wet behind the ears,
• (of ideas or writings) dry and uninteresting.
Similar:
boring,
dull,
dull as ditchwater,
tedious,
dreary,
uninteresting,
unexciting,
uneventful,
uninspiring,
unstimulating,
unimaginative,
humdrum,
run-of-the-mill,
mundane,
commonplace,
workaday,
quotidian,
routine,
stodgy,
lacklustre,
dry,
dry as dust,
arid,
sterile,
lifeless,
vapid,
insipid,
flat,
drab,
bland,
banal,
trite,
prosaic,
colourless,
monochrome,
monotonous,
unrelieved,
lacking variety,
lacking variation,
tiresome,
tiring,
wearisome,
deadly,
nothing to write home about,
samey,
dreich,
dullsville,
ornery,
Origin:
early 17th century: from Latin jejunus ‘fasting, barren’. The original sense was ‘without food’, hence ‘not intellectually nourishing’.
