網頁JEJUNENESS. part of speech: adjective Empty; wanting; vacant; barren; uninteresting. Common misspellings: lejune (100.0%) Usage examples for jejune: Hadnotjejunesojourns beenmadeto

網頁2013年11月15日 · "Jejune" comes from the first/second declension Latin adjective ieiunus, ieiuna, ieiunum (in Classical Latin, "j" did not technically exist, and "i" was used instead, like "Iuppiter"="Jupiter") Originally meant "fasting, hungry" or, figuratively, lacking or barren. http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/101004?redirectedFrom=jejune#eid

網頁1999年3月6日 · Jejune derives from the Latin word jejunus, “empty stomach; fasting”, that has also given us jejunum as the anatomical name for the small intestine (so called because it was said to be always empty at death, which I’ll leave you to think about).

網頁A jejune diet. American Heritage Medicine Not nutritious. Wiktionary More Adjective Definitions (1) Synonyms: insubstantial puerile juvenile adolescent insipid dull vapid unexciting trite sterile meager innocuous inane immature flat Advertisement Origin of Jejune From Latin iēiūnus meager, dry, fasting

網頁(ji-JOON) MEANING: adjective: 1. Dull; insipid. 2. Lacking maturity; juvenile. 3. Lacking in nutrition. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin jejunus (empty, hungry, fasting, meager). A related word is jejunum, the middle part of the small intestine. It was so called because it was usually found empty after death. USAGE:

網頁jejune adjective formal disapproving uk / dʒəˈdʒuːn / us / dʒəˈdʒuːn / very simple or childish: He made jejune generalizations about how all students were lazy and never did any work. boring and not interesting : a jejune lecture by one of our professors SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Naive & trusting an easy touch idiom

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網頁jejuneness (jeˈjuneness) or jejunity (jeˈjunity) noun Word origin C17: from Latin jējūnus hungry, empty Word Frequency jejune in American English (dʒɪˈdʒun ) adjective 1. not nourishing; barren 2. not interesting or satisfying; dull or empty 3. not mature; childish Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition.

網頁Etymology [ edit] jejune +‎ -osity Noun [ edit] jejunosity ( uncountable ) The state of being jejune; emptiness of substance or naïveté . quotations This page was last edited on 31 October 2022, at 12:25. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.

網頁ETYMOLOGY Latin, jejunus, dry, hungry jejune SYNONYMS dreary boring simplistic ANTONYMS absorbing kinetic intriguing jejune DEFINITION lacking significance or interest juvenile Jamie Taylor belie verb belie ETYMOLOGY Old English, began, to deceive ...