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The word of the day is ‘jejune’.
The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence.
No, the word is an adjective. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Immature
2. Naive, simplistic, and superficial.
3. Innocent
4. Childish
1. The reality did not correspond; it transcended his imagination; it painfully demonstrated his jejune crudity.
2. All the native annalists are jejune to an exasperating degree.
3. After some jejune remarks upon this question, he drops into theology and winds up with a little sermon.
4. They hold entirely predictable and usually jejune opinions.
5. Maunders was especially severe upon the novels of young authors, with their affected style and jejune ideas.
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
arid, banal, barren, bland, childish, dull, empty, flat, inane, innocuous, insipid, juvenile, trite, unexciting, vapid, naive, simple, artless, guileless, unworldly, childlike, ingenuous, unsophisticated, ignorant, immature, callow, unwary, easily taken in, without airs, unpretentious, down-to-earth, puerile, infantile etc.
sophisticated, mature
Quotation:
In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.
P. J. O’Rourke
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