Synonyms for jejune
- adjective
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Poor — lacking matter; empty; devoid of substance
poor, dry, insipid, flat, weak, empty, dull, mundane, sterile, barren, uninteresting, vapid, tame, tedious, bland, arid, lifeless, unproductive, prosaic, humdrum, prosy
2. Thin
short, thin, lean, inadequate, scant, meager US CA, meagre UK, insufficient, slender, deficient, ineffectual, skimpy, scanty
3. Juvenile
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Lacking matter; empty; devoid of substance.
- adj. 2
Naive; simplistic.
Related words
- Word family
- jejunely jejuneness jejunity jejunosity
Example sentences
- dry He wrung out the dish towel and hung it up to dry.
- empty An empty stomach doesn't help on the mental front.
- mundane Matthew and Linda mostly talked about very mundane things.
- insipid Water tastes insipid after it has been boiled.
- lean Be careful not to lean too far out of your window.
- inadequate At times like this, words are woefully inadequate.
By length
- 3 letters
- dry1
- 4 letters
- poor1, flat1, weak1, thin1, lean1, dull1, tame1, arid2
- 5 letters
- short1, empty2, bland1, scant1, vapid2, prosy
- 6 letters
- virgin2, barren2, meager2, meagre, skimpy2, scanty2
- 7 letters
- slender2, tedious3, mundane2, sterile2, insipid3, prosaic3, humdrum2, puerile2
- 8 letters
- juvenile3, immature3, lifeless2
- 9 letters
- deficient3
- 10 letters
- inadequate4, adolescent4
- 11 letters
- ineffectual5
- 12 letters
- insufficient4, unproductive4, unremarkable5
- 13 letters
- uninteresting4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (arid2 = 2 syllables).