jejune — ONAD

jejune /jəˈjo͞on, dʒəˈdʒun

▸ adjective

1 naive, simplistic, and superficial:

their entirely predictable and usually jejune opinions.

2 (of ideas or writings) dry and uninteresting:

the poem seems to me rather jejune.

– DERIVATIVES
jejunely ,jejuneness /jəˈjo͞onnəs, dʒəˈdʒunnəs

/ noun

– ORIGIN early 17th century : from Latin jejunus ‘fasting, barren’. The original sense was ‘without food’, hence ‘not intellectually nourishing’.