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jejune

adjective

1 their entirely predictable and usually jejune opinions:

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, immature, juvenile, puerile, silly, infantile;

informal wet behind the ears.

▷antonyms sophisticated, mature.

2 the following poem now seems to me rather jejune:

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;

informal deadly, nothing to write home about;

British, informal samey;

Scottish, informal dreich;

North American, informal dullsville, ornery.

▷antonyms fascinating, inspired.

jejune Oxford Dictionary of English