Definition of Jejne
Je*june" (?), a. [L. jejunus
fasting, hungry, dry, barren, scanty; of unknown origin.]
1. Lacking matter; empty; void of
substance.
2. Void of interest; barren; meager; dry;
as, a jejune narrative.
- Je*june"ly, adv. --
Je*june"ness, n. Bacon.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Not nutritious
- Lacking matter; empty; void of substance.
*1917: 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'. — Charles Joseph Singer, Studies in the History and Method of Science
*1993: I went to the cinema not for entertainment, but for cinematography. For it was only by studying the precise rake of extra-long pans, the trajectory of tracking shots and the jejune emotional appeal of the jump-cut, that I could add to the repertoire of my own internal shoots. — Will Self, My Idea of Fun
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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