jejune

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   lacking in nutritive value

   The jejune diets of the very poor.

2. 2
   adj

   Naive; simplistic.

   I have often wondered why some late Writers should sensure Tully's Letters for being too naked and jejune, when that to his Friend Lucceius, which the Reader will find in this Collection, is a plain Demonstration to the contrary?

Simplified etymology

Jejune entered English in the early 17th century from Latin jejunus, meaning “fasting” or “barren.” It first meant “without food” and later developed the figurative sense “not intellectually nourishing.”

Borrowed from Latin iēiūnus (“fasting”).

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