jejune

  • 31jejune — see DINNER …

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  • 32jejune — adj. 1 intellectually unsatisfying; shallow. 2 puerile. 3 (of ideas, writings, etc.) meagre, scanty; dry and uninteresting. 4 (of the land) barren, poor. Derivatives: jejunely adv. jejuneness n. Etymology: orig. = fasting, f. L jejunus …

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  • 33Jejunely — Jejune Je*june , a. [L. jejunus fasting, hungry, dry, barren, scanty; of unknown origin.] [1913 Webster] 1. Lacking matter; empty; void of substance. [1913 Webster] 2. Void of interest; barren; meager; dry; as, a jejune narrative. 3. Juvenile;… …

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  • 34Jejuneness — Jejune Je*june , a. [L. jejunus fasting, hungry, dry, barren, scanty; of unknown origin.] [1913 Webster] 1. Lacking matter; empty; void of substance. [1913 Webster] 2. Void of interest; barren; meager; dry; as, a jejune narrative. 3. Juvenile;… …

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  • 35jejuneness — noun 1. lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life • Syn: ↑callowness, ↑juvenility • Derivationally related forms: ↑juvenile (for: ↑juvenility), ↑jejune …

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  • 36insipid — insipid, vapid, flat, jejune, banal, wishy washy, inane mean devoid of qualities which give spirit, character, or substance to a thing. Something insipid is without taste, or savor, or pungency; the term is applied not only to food and drink… …

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  • 37jejunity — noun 1. the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated • Syn: ↑jejuneness, ↑tameness, ↑vapidity, ↑vapidness • Derivationally related forms: ↑vapid (for: ↑vapidness), ↑ …

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  • 38insipid — adjective Etymology: French & Late Latin; French insipide, from Late Latin insipidus, from Latin in + sapidus savory, from sapere to taste more at sage Date: 1609 1. lacking taste or savor ; tasteless < insipid food > 2. lacking in qualities that …

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  • 39Vext — Supercbbox| title = Vext caption = Vext #1 (March, 1999). Pencils by Mike McKone, inks by Mark McKenna. schedule = Monthly format = publisher = DC Comics date = March 1999 August 1999 issues = Six main char team = writers = Keith Giffen&#8230; …

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  • 40Ennui (sonnet) — Sylvia Plath s sonnet, Ennui was published for the first time in November 2006 in the online literary journal Blackbird [http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu] . Sylvia Plath wrote the Petrarchan sonnet “Ennui” during her undergraduate years at Smith&#8230; …

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