jejune

/d͡ʒəˈdʒuːn/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iēiūnus (“fasting”).

jejune means not nutritious. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 71 out of 100.

Why this word is great

JEJUNE — [Adjective] Lacking substance, interest, or nutritional value; often also implying a simplistic or naive quality. From the Latin iēiūnus ("fasting, hungry, empty"). Unlike "banal," which emphasizes trite overuse, or "puerile," which connotes childish silliness, "jejune" diagnoses an inherent emptiness, an intellectual famine. It is the taste of a cracker made of sawdust, the color of dust on unopened textbooks, the specific silence that follows a statement too incomplete to merit rebuttal. True hunger is the recognition of a void, not of the stomach, but of the mind.

adj

Not nutritious.
Lacking matter; empty; devoid of substance.
Naive; simplistic.“I have often wondered why some late Writers should sensure Tully's Letters for being too naked and jejune, when that to his Friend Lucceius, which the Reader will find in this Collection, is a plain Demonstration to the contrary?”