Crossword clues for jejune
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jejune \Je*june"\, a. [L. jejunus fasting, hungry, dry, barren, scanty; of unknown origin.]
Lacking matter; empty; void of substance.
Void of interest; barren; meager; dry; as, a jejune narrative.
Juvenile; childish; immature.
Lacking nutritional value. [PJC] - Je*june"ly, adv. -- Je*june"ness, n.
--Bacon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "dull in the mind, flat, insipid," from Latin ieiunus "empty, dry, barren," literally "fasting, hungry," of obscure origin.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Not nutritious. 2 Lacking matter; empty; devoid of substance. 3 naive; simplistic.
WordNet
adj. lacking in nutritive value; "the jejune diets of the very poor" [syn: insubstantial]
displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes" [syn: adolescent, juvenile, puerile]
lacking interest or significance; "an insipid personality"; "jejune novel" [syn: insipid]
Wikipedia
Jejune is the name of a band which formed in 1996 at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. The band has been commonly identified with the emo genre, and was heavily involved with the scene at the peak of the "second wave" of emo in the mid-late '90s. The three founding members, Arabella Harrison (Bass/Vocals), Joe Guevara (Guitar/Vocals) and Chris Vanacore (Drums), met while studying at the college. The band relocated to San Diego, California, in 1997.
The band's earliest songs consisted of a more punk rock style, such as on their first single, "Drive by Negly". The band continued recording demos with the expectation of eventually recording their debut album, but ending up issuing a compilation of those demos as their first album, Junk, in 1997. A split single with Jimmy Eat World, including the song "Early Stars", was released in early 1998.
Later in 1998, the band released their second album, This Afternoon's Malady, which marked a notable departure from the band's more indie rock leanings on their debut.
Usage examples of "jejune".
It is evident to me that Gray meant by this to stigmatise the diction of Joseph Warton, which is jejune, verbose, and poor.
By his brooding on the perpetual failure, not only of others, but of himself, to live up to his imaginative ideals, his consequent cynical scorn for humanity, the jejune credulity as to the absolute validity of his ideals and the unworthiness of the world in disregarding them, his wincings and mockeries under the sting of the petty disillusions which every hour spent among men brings to his infallibly quick observation, he has acquired the half tragic, half ironic air, the mysterious moodiness, the suggestion of a strange and terrible history that has left him nothing but undying remorse, by which Childe Harold fascinated the grandmothers of his English contemporaries.
You are bored with bliss, satiated with sensation, jaded with jejune joys.
He had abandoned his jejune plans for invading France and scuttled away.
Until she knew him better, it might be wise to confine herself to sensible speech and forgo any further jejune attempts at witticism.
It is difficult to believe nowadays that the writers of these publications, at once tediously copious and incredibly jejune, were living at the same time as the lively multitude of workers in the experimental sciences which were daily adding to and reshaping knowledge to achieve fresh practical triumphs.
The works called good are dry and jejune, soon consummated, often of questionable value, and leaving behind them when finished a sense of vacuity.
What used to be the mystery and occultism of the few is now general knowledge, so that all the playing at occultism by conceited people now seems jejune and foolish.
He gestured in the direction of the living room with its logorrheic flow of TV noise, the pompous, unending, empty spouting-forth of jejune trash by the nonreal president of what Rachmael -- as well as everyone else on Terra -- knew to be a nonreal, deliberately contrived and touted hoax-colony.
I leave the "very young gentlemen," whose careful expositions of the results of practice in more than six thousand cases are characterized as "the jejune and fizenless dreamings of sophomore writers," to the sympathies of those "dear young friends," and "dear young gentlemen," who will judge how much to value their instructor's counsel to think for themselves, knowing what they are to expect if they happen not to think as he does.
He gestured in the direction of the living room with its logorrheic flow of TV noise, the pompous, unending, empty spouting-forth of jejune trash by the nonreal president of what Rachmael—as well as everyone else on Terra—knew to be a nonreal, deliberately contrived and touted hoax-colony.