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jejune

adjective/d͡ʒəˈdʒuːn/

What It Means

Not nutritious.

Lacking matter; empty; devoid of substance.

Naive; simplistic.

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Jejune in Context

“This renders the recognition of alternatives a paramount necessity for a logic of discovery, which can no longer dismiss them with a jejune chapter on 'disjunctive propositions'.”

— 1917, Charles Joseph Singer, Studies in the History and Method of Science

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Borrowed from Latin iēiūnus (“fasting”).

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