jejune

The word “jejune” has 2 syllables: je-june

It's pronounced as /dʒɪˈdʒun/


What is synonym and antonym for jejune?

In the thesaurus, “jejune” has 119 synonyms and 71 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for jejune along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for jejune

  • adolescent
  • annoying
  • arid
  • aseptic
  • babyish
  • banal
  • barren
  • blah
  • bland
  • blank
  • boring
  • bothersome
  • boyish
  • brattish
  • bratty
  • childish
  • childlike
  • colorless
  • common
  • commonplace
  • cumbersome
  • debilitating
  • demoralizing
  • discouraging
  • disheartening
  • dispiriting
  • drab
  • draining
  • dreary
  • drudging
  • dry
  • dull
  • dullish
  • dusty
  • earthbound
  • empty
  • enervating
  • enfeebling
  • exhausting
  • fatiguing
  • flat
  • girlie
  • girlish
  • girly
  • gray
  • grey
  • heavy
  • ho-hum
  • humdrum
  • immature
  • inane
  • inanimate
  • infantile
  • innocent
  • innocuous
  • insipid
  • irksome
  • irritating
  • jading
  • juvenile
  • kiddish
  • leaden
  • longsome
  • lumbering
  • meager
  • mind-numbing
  • monochromatic
  • monotonous
  • naive
  • numbing
  • old
  • ordinary
  • pallid
  • palling
  • pedantic
  • pedestrian
  • pleasureless
  • plodding
  • pokey
  • poky
  • ponderous
  • prosaic
  • prosy
  • puerile
  • simple
  • simplistic
  • slow
  • soggy
  • spiritless
  • stale
  • sterile
  • stodgy
  • stuffy
  • stupid
  • suspenseless
  • tame
  • tedious
  • tepid
  • tiresome
  • tiring
  • trite
  • undramatic
  • uneventful
  • unexceptional
  • unexciting
  • unimaginative
  • uninspiring
  • uninteresting
  • unnewsworthy
  • unrewarding
  • unsensational
  • unsophisticated
  • unspectacular
  • unsurprising
  • vapid
  • wearing
  • wearisome
  • weary
  • wearying

Antonyms for jejune

  • absorbing
  • adult
  • alluring
  • amazing
  • amusing
  • animating
  • arresting
  • astonishing
  • astounding
  • attracting
  • attractive
  • awesome
  • beguiling
  • bewitching
  • breathtaking
  • captivating
  • charming
  • cosmopolitan
  • diverting
  • electrifying
  • enchanting
  • energizing
  • engaging
  • engrossing
  • enlivening
  • entertaining
  • enthralling
  • entrancing
  • exciting
  • exhilarating
  • experienced
  • eye-opening
  • fabulous
  • fascinating
  • galvanizing
  • gripping
  • grown-up
  • hair-raising
  • inspiring
  • interesting
  • intriguing
  • invigorating
  • involving
  • knowing
  • marvellous
  • marvelous
  • mature
  • mesmerizing
  • moving
  • poignant
  • provocative
  • rip-roaring
  • riveting
  • rousing
  • sensational
  • smart
  • sophisticated
  • spectacular
  • spellbinding
  • stimulating
  • stirring
  • surprising
  • suspenseful
  • tantalizing
  • thrilling
  • touching
  • unchildlike
  • wonderful
  • wondrous
  • worldly
  • worldly-wise

Meanings of jejune

  • adjective
    1. (now rare) Not nutritious.
    2. (by extension, of a speech or an argument) Lacking matter; empty; devoid of substance.
    3. Naive; simplistic.

Example Sentences

  • His argument seemed jejune and lacked any real depth or insight.
  • The article offered only a jejune analysis of the complex issue at hand.
  • Despite his advanced age, the professor's lectures were anything but jejune, they were rich with wisdom and experience.
  • The candidate's jejune responses during the debate failed to impress the audience.
  • It's disappointing to encounter such jejune writing in a publication that claims to offer expert analysis.

On this page you'll find 190 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to jejune, such as: absorbing, adolescent, adult, alluring, amazing, amusing, animating.

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Related Words

babyish

hack

  • KO
  • abide
  • absorb
  • accept
  • acquiesce
  • address
  • allow
  • amateur
  • arid
  • banal
  • bang
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  • bat
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  • beating
  • beginner
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  • blow
  • bludgeoning
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  • bop
  • boring
  • box
  • bring off
  • bromidic
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  • buffet
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  • canned
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  • cardboard
  • carriage
  • carry off
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  • chip
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  • cliche
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  • clobbering
  • clout
  • coach
  • cobwebby
  • colorless
  • come to grips with
  • command
  • commonplace
  • control
  • conventional
  • cookie-cutter
  • countenance
  • counter
  • counterblow
  • counterpunch
  • counterstroke
  • crack
  • cruncher
  • cudgeling
  • cudgelling
  • cuff
  • dab
  • derivative
  • direct
  • douse
  • drab
  • dreary
  • drubbing
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  • dry
  • dull
  • dusty
  • endure
  • engineer
  • fell
  • field
  • fillip
  • finesse
  • flat
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  • freshman
  • gash
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  • gharry
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  • greasy grind
  • greenhorn
  • grind
  • groove
  • guide
  • gypsy cab
  • hacker
  • hackle
  • hackney
  • hackneyed
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  • hand
  • handle
  • have a grip on
  • haymaker
  • heavy
  • hew
  • hireling
  • hit
  • ho-hum
  • hook
  • humdrum
  • imitative
  • indent
  • indentation
  • indenture
  • inexpert
  • jackleg
  • jading
  • jejune
  • jitney
  • jockey
  • joggle
  • kayo
  • kerf
  • kick
  • kid
  • knee
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  • lacerate
  • lackey
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  • larrup
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  • learner
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  • live with
  • manage
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  • mangle
  • manipulate
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  • micromanage
  • mind-numbing
  • monotonous
  • moth-eaten
  • musty
  • mutilate
  • negotiate
  • neophyte
  • newcomer
  • nick
  • nock
  • normal
  • notch
  • novice
  • numbing
  • obligatory
  • old
  • old hat
  • old pro
  • old-fashioned
  • one-two
  • ordinary
  • pasting
  • pedantic
  • pedestrian
  • pelt
  • permit
  • pick
  • platitudinal
  • platitudinous
  • play
  • plodder
  • plump
  • pocket
  • poke
  • ponderous
  • pound
  • pounding
  • pro
  • prosaic
  • pull
  • pummeling
  • pummelling
  • punch
  • rabbit punch
  • rap
  • ready-made
  • regulate
  • respect
  • ricksha
  • rickshaw
  • right
  • right-hander
  • rookie
  • rote
  • roundhouse
  • routine
  • run
  • score
  • shiver
  • shopworn
  • sidewinder
  • slam
  • slap
  • slash
  • slit
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  • sock
  • spank
  • stale
  • stand
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  • standard
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  • stereotyped
  • stick out
  • stinger
  • stock
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  • stomach
  • stripe
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  • stuffy
  • sucker punch
  • suffer
  • support
  • sustain
  • swallow
  • swat
  • sweat out
  • swing
  • swipe
  • switch
  • take
  • tame
  • taxi
  • taxicab
  • tedious
  • tenderfoot
  • thrashing
  • threadbare
  • thud
  • thump
  • thwack
  • timeworn
  • tired
  • tiresome
  • tiring
  • tolerate
  • tough it out
  • treat
  • tried-and-true
  • trifler
  • trite
  • twice-told
  • typical
  • tyro
  • undercut
  • undramatic
  • unimaginative
  • uninspired
  • uninteresting
  • unoriginal
  • uppercut
  • usual
  • vapid
  • vehicle
  • wallop
  • walloping
  • water taxi
  • wear
  • wearisome
  • weary
  • wearying
  • well-worn
  • welt
  • whack
  • wham
  • whap
  • whip
  • whipping
  • whop
  • workhorse

hackney

  • arid
  • banal
  • barouche
  • barren
  • bay
  • black
  • bore
  • boring
  • bromidic
  • bronco
  • brougham
  • buckboard
  • buckskin
  • buggy
  • cab
  • cabriolet
  • calash
  • caleche
  • canned
  • cardboard
  • caroche
  • carriage
  • carryall
  • chaise
  • charger
  • chariot
  • chestnut
  • cliche
  • coach
  • coarsen
  • cob
  • cobwebby
  • colorless
  • colt
  • commonplace
  • conventional
  • cookie-cutter
  • coupe
  • courser
  • cow pony
  • curricle
  • cutting horse
  • deplete
  • derivative
  • diligence
  • dobbin
  • dogcart
  • drab
  • dreary
  • droshky
  • drosky
  • drudging
  • dry
  • dull
  • dun
  • dusty
  • equid
  • equine
  • equipage
  • exhaust
  • filly
  • flat
  • foal
  • four-in-hand
  • galloper
  • gelding
  • gig
  • go-cart
  • hack
  • hackneyed
  • hansom
  • hansom cab
  • heavy
  • ho-hum
  • horse
  • humdrum
  • imitative
  • jade
  • jading
  • jaunting car
  • jejune
  • jitney
  • landau
  • leaden
  • mare
  • mind-numbing
  • monotonous
  • moth-eaten
  • mount
  • mustang
  • musty
  • nag
  • normal
  • numbing
  • obligatory
  • old
  • old hat
  • old-fashioned
  • ordinary
  • overdo
  • overexpose
  • overuse
  • packhorse
  • palomino
  • pedantic
  • pedestrian
  • phaeton
  • pinto
  • platitudinal
  • platitudinous
  • plug
  • ponderous
  • pony
  • popularize
  • post chaise
  • prancer
  • prosaic
  • quarter horse
  • racehorse
  • ready-made
  • rig
  • roadster
  • roan
  • rockaway
  • rote
  • routine
  • saddle horse
  • shopworn
  • skate
  • skewbald
  • sorrel
  • stage
  • stagecoach
  • stale
  • stallion
  • standard
  • stanhope
  • steed
  • stereotype
  • stereotyped
  • stock
  • stodgy
  • stuffy
  • surrey
  • tame
  • tandem
  • taxi
  • taxicab
  • tedious
  • threadbare
  • tilbury
  • timeworn
  • tire
  • tired
  • tiresome
  • tiring
  • tonga
  • tourist car
  • trap
  • tried-and-true
  • trite
  • troika
  • trotter
  • turnout
  • twice-told
  • typical
  • undramatic
  • unimaginative
  • uninspired
  • uninteresting
  • unoriginal
  • usual
  • vapid
  • vehicle
  • victoria
  • vulgarize
  • warhorse
  • wear out
  • wearisome
  • weary
  • wearying
  • well-worn
  • workhorse

hackneyed

  • antiquated
  • arid
  • banal
  • barren
  • bored
  • boring
  • bromidic
  • canned
  • cardboard
  • cliche
  • coarsened
  • cobwebby
  • colorless
  • common
  • commonplace
  • conventional
  • cookie-cutter
  • corny
  • depleted
  • derivative
  • drab
  • dreary
  • drudging
  • dry
  • dull
  • dusty
  • everyday
  • exhausted
  • familiar tune
  • flat
  • hack
  • hackney
  • heavy
  • ho-hum
  • hokey
  • humdrum
  • imitative
  • jaded
  • jading
  • jejune
  • leaden
  • mind-numbing
  • monotonous
  • moth-eaten
  • musty
  • normal
  • numbing
  • obligatory
  • obsolete
  • old
  • old hat
  • old-fashioned
  • old-hat
  • ordinary
  • out-of-date
  • outdated
  • outmoded
  • overdid
  • overexposed
  • overused
  • overworked
  • pedantic
  • pedestrian
  • platitudinal
  • platitudinous
  • played-out
  • ponderous
  • popularized
  • prosaic
  • quotidian
  • ready-made
  • rote
  • routine
  • run-of-the-mill
  • shopworn
  • stale
  • standard
  • stereotyped
  • stock
  • stodgy
  • stuffy
  • tame
  • tedious
  • threadbare
  • timeworn
  • tired
  • tiresome
  • tiring
  • tried-and-true
  • trite
  • twice-told
  • typical
  • undramatic
  • unimaginative
  • uninspired
  • uninteresting
  • unoriginal
  • usual
  • vapid
  • vulgarized
  • wearisome
  • weary
  • wearying
  • well-worn
  • wore out
  • worn-out

jading

  • annoying
  • arid
  • aseptic
  • barren
  • blah
  • blank
  • boring
  • bothersome
  • burning out
  • colorless
  • common
  • commonplace
  • cumbersome
  • debilitating
  • dejecting
  • demoralizing
  • disabling
  • discouraging
  • disheartening
  • dispiriting
  • doing in
  • drab
  • draining
  • dreary
  • drudging
  • dry
  • dull
  • dullish
  • dusty
  • earthbound
  • enervating
  • enfeebling
  • exhausting
  • fagging
  • fatiguing
  • flat
  • gray
  • grey
  • heavy
  • ho-hum
  • humdrum
  • inanimate
  • irksome
  • irritating
  • jejune
  • leaden
  • longsome
  • lumbering
  • mind-numbing
  • monochromatic
  • monotonous
  • numbing
  • old
  • ordinary
  • pallid
  • palling
  • pedantic
  • pedestrian
  • pleasureless
  • plodding
  • pokey
  • poky
  • ponderous
  • prosaic
  • prosy
  • putting to sleep
  • slow
  • soggy
  • spiritless
  • stale
  • sterile
  • stodgy
  • stuffy
  • stupid
  • suspenseless
  • tame
  • tedious
  • tepid
  • tiresome
  • tiring
  • undramatic
  • uneventful
  • unexceptional
  • unexciting
  • unimaginative
  • uninspiring
  • uninteresting
  • unnewsworthy
  • unrewarding
  • unsensational
  • unspectacular
  • unsurprising
  • vapid
  • washing out
  • wearing
  • wearing out
  • wearisome
  • weary
  • wearying

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