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What is another word for jejune?

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Boring or severely lacking in interest

Simplistic, devoid of substance

Immature, or lacking in life experience

Annoyingly or embarrassingly immature in nature or behavior

Having an innocent or credulous nature

Having or arousing feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia, typically in an exaggerated and self-indulgent way

(followed by in) Lacking or having a shortage in

Lacking strength or will in one's character

Of little importance

Not suitable or appropriate in the circumstances

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Boring or severely lacking in interest

colorless^US

colourless^UK

lacklustre^UK

lackluster^US

meagre^UK

meager^US

nothing to write home about

anaemic^UK

anemic^US

gray^US

grey^UK

flavorless^US

flavourless^UK

laboured^UK

labored^US

driveling^US

drivelling^UK

wintry^US

wintery^UK

unsavoury^UK

unsavory^US

not amounting to much

nothing to get excited about

sombre^UK

somber^US

blending into the background

neither one thing nor the other

nothing out of the ordinary

paralyzed^US

paralysed^UK

of little consequence

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“The jejune speeches faded into oblivion even as they were being delivered.”

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Simplistic, devoid of substance

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“Perhaps your superiors realized that your rhetoric is sloppy, tendentious, jejune and banal.”

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Immature, or lacking in life experience

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“Friar Lawrence upbraids Romeo for his youthful fickleness, and we realize he is, in many ways, a jejune youth.”

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Annoyingly or embarrassingly immature in nature or behavior

“As traditionalist critics struggled with this apparently jejune outburst, it was as though Mordred had taken over the court of Hollywood.”

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Having an innocent or credulous nature

like a babe in the woods

falling hook line and sinker

readily swallowing whole

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“We, in this century, may well be as gullible and as conceptually jejune as any generation before us.”

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Having or arousing feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia, typically in an exaggerated and self-indulgent way

laid on with a trowel

grovelling^UK

groveling^US

lionizing^US

lionising^UK

phoney^UK

phony^US

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(followed by in) Lacking or having a shortage in

with an insufficiency

Adjective

Lacking strength or will in one's character

meager^US

meagre^UK

without a will of your own

milk-livered

afraid of one's shadow

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Of little importance

of little consequence

not worth bothering about

meagre^UK

meager^US

neither here nor there

subnormal

shabby

wanting

not worth speaking of

caviling^US

cavilling^UK

without rhyme or reason

hardly worth mentioning

of no financial value

baulked^UK

balked^US

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Not suitable or appropriate in the circumstances

unfavorable^US

like a fish out of water

grey^UK

gray^US

contrary to the rules

out of character with

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