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

abused

  • a slave to
  • abandoned
  • aberrant
  • abject
  • abnormal
  • affronted
  • archaic
  • arid
  • aspersed
  • assailed
  • attacked
  • bad-mouthed
  • bashed
  • beat up on
  • belabored
  • belittled
  • berated
  • big yawn
  • blackguarded
  • blah
  • blasphemed
  • blasted
  • bled
  • browbeaten
  • brutalized
  • bullied
  • burdened
  • burned
  • burnt
  • castigated
  • chastised
  • cheated
  • chid
  • chided
  • colorless
  • commercialized
  • commodified
  • common
  • commonplace
  • contorted
  • corrupt
  • corrupted
  • cowed
  • criticized
  • crushed
  • cursed
  • dead
  • debased
  • debauched
  • defiled
  • degraded
  • depraved
  • desecrated
  • despairing
  • despoiled
  • destitute
  • deviant
  • deviating
  • disheartened
  • dismal
  • disparaged
  • dispirited
  • distorted
  • distressed
  • downcast
  • downtrodden
  • dreary
  • driveling
  • dry
  • enslaved
  • excoriated
  • execrated
  • exploited
  • familiar
  • flat
  • fleeced
  • foreign
  • fulminated
  • grotesque
  • hackneyed
  • harangued
  • harassed
  • harmed
  • harried
  • have-not
  • heavy
  • hectored
  • helpless
  • ho-hum
  • hoary
  • hopeless
  • humdrum
  • hurt
  • ill-treated
  • ill-used
  • impaired
  • imprecated
  • injured
  • insipid
  • insulted
  • intimidated
  • jejune
  • jerked around
  • kicked around
  • kinky
  • lambasted
  • leveraged
  • libeled
  • libelled
  • lit into
  • longwinded
  • maltreated
  • manhandled
  • manipulated
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  • mid
  • milked
  • misapplied
  • misemployed
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  • mistreated
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  • molested
  • monotonous
  • monstrous
  • oft-repeated
  • oppressed
  • ordinary
  • out-of-date
  • outraged
  • overburdened
  • overcharged
  • overworked
  • persecuted
  • perverted
  • pimped
  • plain
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  • polluted
  • potshot
  • profaned
  • prolix
  • prosaic
  • prostituted
  • prosy
  • put down
  • ravished
  • rebuked
  • rejected
  • repetitious
  • repetitive
  • reprimanded
  • reviled
  • routine
  • run-of-the-mill
  • sailed into
  • sandbagged
  • savaged
  • scathed
  • scolded
  • scorned
  • sick
  • skinned
  • slammed
  • slandered
  • slurred
  • soaked
  • soporific
  • stale
  • stock
  • stuck
  • stupid
  • subservient
  • suppressed
  • tainted
  • taken advantage of
  • tame
  • tedious
  • tied into
  • tired
  • tiresome
  • took apart
  • tormented
  • tortured
  • traded on
  • traduced
  • trashed
  • trite
  • twisted
  • tyrannized
  • underfoot
  • unhealthy
  • unimaginative
  • uninspiring
  • unnatural
  • used
  • usual
  • usual thing
  • vapid
  • vicious
  • victimized
  • vilified
  • violated
  • vitiate
  • vitiated
  • vituperated
  • walked on
  • warped
  • whipped
  • wicked
  • worked
  • worn-out
  • wronged
  • wrought

babyish

  • adolescent
  • baby
  • boyish
  • brattish
  • bratty
  • childish
  • childlike
  • foolish
  • girlie
  • girlish
  • girly
  • immature
  • infantile
  • innocent
  • jejune
  • juvenile
  • kid stuff
  • kiddish
  • naive
  • puerile
  • silly
  • simple
  • simplistic
  • sissy
  • sissyish
  • spoiled
  • unsophisticated

bad

  • abhorrent
  • abominable
  • abominably
  • abomination
  • abysmal
  • abysmally
  • achy
  • acrid
  • acrimonious
  • acute
  • addled
  • admirable
  • adverse
  • afflicted
  • aggravating
  • aggrieved
  • agonized
  • ailing
  • airsick
  • amiss
  • anathema
  • anguished
  • annoying
  • appalling
  • arch
  • atrocious
  • atrociously
  • atrociousness
  • atrocity
  • awe-inspiring
  • awful
  • awfully
  • babyish
  • badass
  • badly
  • badness
  • baleful
  • balefulness
  • balky
  • baneful
  • banned
  • bargain-basement
  • barred
  • base
  • bastard
  • beastly
  • below par
  • bilious
  • bitchy
  • bitter
  • black
  • blamable
  • blameworthy
  • bleak
  • blemished
  • blue
  • broken
  • brokenhearted
  • brummagem
  • brutal
  • bum
  • bush
  • bush-league
  • cancer
  • canker
  • careless
  • carsick
  • cast down
  • catty
  • caustic
  • censurable
  • challenged
  • cheap
  • cheapjack
  • cheeky
  • cheerless
  • cheesy
  • childish
  • coarse
  • comfortless
  • common
  • condemned
  • conscience-stricken
  • contagious
  • contaminated
  • contemptible
  • contemptuous
  • contrary
  • contrite
  • cool
  • corroded
  • corrupt
  • corrupted
  • corruption
  • counterfeit
  • crappy
  • crestfallen
  • criminal
  • crippled
  • critical
  • cruddy
  • cruel
  • crumbled
  • crumby
  • crummy
  • curdled
  • cursed
  • curst
  • cussed
  • cut-rate
  • damaged
  • damaging
  • damnable
  • damnably
  • dangerous
  • dark
  • darkening
  • darkness
  • deadly
  • debased
  • debauched
  • debauchery
  • debilitated
  • decay
  • decayed
  • decaying
  • decomposed
  • decomposing
  • decrepit
  • defaced
  • defective
  • defiant
  • deficient
  • deficiently
  • defiled
  • defiling
  • degeneracy
  • degenerate
  • degenerated
  • dejected
  • deleterious
  • delinquent
  • deplorable
  • deplorably
  • depraved
  • depravedness
  • depravity
  • deprecating
  • depressed
  • depressing
  • derogatory
  • desolate
  • despairing
  • despicable
  • despiteful
  • despondent
  • destructive
  • deteriorated
  • detestable
  • detestably
  • detrimental
  • devastating
  • devilishness
  • devilry
  • deviltry
  • devious
  • diabolism
  • difficult
  • dirty
  • disabled
  • disadvantageous
  • disagreeable
  • disallowed
  • disappointed
  • disastrous
  • disastrously
  • disconsolate
  • discouraged
  • discouraging
  • disdainful
  • diseased
  • disfigured
  • disgraceful
  • disgusting
  • disheartened
  • dishonest
  • dishonorable
  • disintegrated
  • disintegrating
  • dismal
  • disobedient
  • disobliging
  • disordered
  • disorderly
  • disparaging
  • dispirited
  • displeasing
  • disreputable
  • disrespectful
  • dissatisfactory
  • dissolute
  • distasteful
  • distressed
  • distressing
  • dizzy
  • doleful
  • dolorous
  • down
  • down in the mouth
  • downcast
  • downhearted
  • dreadful
  • dreadfully
  • drear
  • dreary
  • droopy
  • egregious
  • egregiously
  • el cheapo
  • elegiac
  • elegiacal
  • elfish
  • enormity
  • envious
  • errant
  • erring
  • erroneous
  • evil
  • evil-minded
  • evildoing
  • evilness
  • execrable
  • execrably
  • extreme
  • fake
  • fallen
  • fallible
  • fatal
  • faulty
  • feeble
  • fermented
  • feverish
  • fiendishness
  • fierce
  • flagrant
  • flagrantly
  • flashy
  • flawed
  • forbidden
  • forlorn
  • foul
  • fouled
  • fragile
  • frail
  • from hunger
  • froward
  • funereal
  • galling
  • gangrenous
  • garish
  • gaudy
  • ghastly
  • gimcrack
  • glitzy
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • gnarly
  • god-awful
  • godawful
  • grand
  • grave
  • gray
  • grey
  • grieving
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  • grossly
  • guilty
  • half-assed
  • halt
  • hangdog
  • harmed
  • harmful
  • harsh
  • hateful
  • hazardous
  • headstrong
  • heartbroken
  • heartsick
  • heartsore
  • heavyhearted
  • heinousness
  • hellish
  • hideous
  • hopeless
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  • horrendously
  • horrible
  • horribly
  • horrid
  • horrifically
  • hostile
  • hurt
  • hurtful
  • hypochondriac
  • hypochondriacal
  • icky
  • ignoble
  • ill
  • ill-behaved
  • ill-mannered
  • ill-natured
  • illegal
  • immature
  • immoral
  • immorality
  • impaired
  • imperfect
  • imperiling
  • imperilling
  • impish
  • impolite
  • imposing
  • impressive
  • improper
  • impudent
  • impure
  • in pain
  • inadequate
  • inadequately
  • inappropriately
  • incapacitated
  • incomplete
  • inconsiderate
  • inconsolable
  • incorrect
  • incorrectly
  • indecency
  • indecent
  • indecently
  • indecorous
  • indifferent
  • indisposed
  • ineffective
  • ineffectual
  • infamous
  • infantile
  • infectious
  • infective
  • inferior
  • inferiorly
  • infernal
  • infirm
  • inimical
  • iniquitous
  • iniquitousness
  • iniquity
  • injured
  • injurious
  • inoperative
  • insidious
  • insolent
  • insufficient
  • insufficiently
  • insurgent
  • intense
  • interdicted
  • intimidating
  • intolerably
  • intractable
  • invalid
  • invidious
  • irreverent
  • irritating
  • jaundiced
  • jealous
  • jejune
  • jeopardizing
  • joyless
  • junky
  • juvenile
  • kiddish
  • killer
  • kitsch
  • kitschy
  • knavish
  • lachrymose
  • lacking
  • lackluster
  • lame
  • lesser
  • lethal
  • libertine
  • light-headed
  • loathsome
  • loose
  • lousily
  • lousy
  • low
  • low-grade
  • low-minded
  • low-rent
  • low-spirited
  • lugubrious
  • malefaction
  • malevolent
  • malicious
  • malign
  • malignant
  • marred
  • meager
  • meagerly
  • meagre
  • mean
  • mean-spirited
  • meanly
  • mediocre
  • melancholic
  • melancholy
  • menacing
  • meretricious
  • mighty
  • mildewy
  • misbehaving
  • mischievous
  • miscreant
  • miserable
  • miserably
  • miserly
  • moldering
  • moldy
  • monkeying
  • monkeyish
  • morbid
  • morose
  • mournful
  • murky
  • mutinous
  • nasty
  • naughtily
  • naughty
  • nauseated
  • nauseating
  • nauseous
  • nefarious
  • negative
  • niggardly
  • nocuous
  • noisome
  • nonbinding
  • nonvalid
  • noxious
  • nugatory
  • null
  • null and void
  • objectionable
  • obnoxious
  • obscene
  • obstreperous
  • odious
  • odiously
  • off
  • offensive
  • ominous
  • on the blink
  • opprobrious
  • ornery
  • ostentatious
  • out of sorts
  • outlawed
  • painful
  • paltry
  • parlous
  • pathetic
  • peaked
  • peaky
  • perilous
  • pernicious
  • perverse
  • perversion
  • perverted
  • pervertedness
  • pestiferous
  • pestilent
  • pestilential
  • phoney
  • phony
  • pixieish
  • plaintive
  • poisonous
  • polluted
  • poor
  • poorly
  • poxy
  • prankish
  • prejudicial
  • prohibited
  • proscribed
  • puerile
  • punk
  • putrefied
  • putrefying
  • putrescent
  • putrid
  • qualmish
  • queasy
  • queazy
  • rancid
  • rancorous
  • rank
  • rascally
  • rebellious
  • recalcitrant
  • refractory
  • regretful
  • remorseful
  • repellant
  • repellent
  • reprehensible
  • reprehensibly
  • reprobate
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • resentful
  • restive
  • revolting
  • revulsive
  • risky
  • roguish
  • rot
  • rotten
  • rottenly
  • rotting
  • rowdy
  • rubbishy
  • rude
  • rueful
  • ruffianly
  • ruinous
  • run-down
  • sad
  • saddened
  • sassy
  • satanism
  • saturnine
  • scandalous
  • scantily
  • scantly
  • scanty
  • scathing
  • schlock
  • schlocky
  • scornful
  • scoundrelly
  • scrofulous
  • scurrility
  • scurrilous
  • scurrilousness
  • scurvy
  • seamy
  • seasick
  • second-class
  • second-rate
  • seedy
  • selfish
  • serious
  • severe
  • shabbily
  • shabby
  • shaky
  • sham
  • shameful
  • shlock
  • shlocky
  • shocking
  • shoddily
  • shoddy
  • short
  • showy
  • sick
  • sickened
  • sickening
  • sickish
  • sickly
  • sin
  • sinful
  • sinfulness
  • sinister
  • skimp
  • skimpily
  • skimpy
  • sleazily
  • sleazy
  • slipshod
  • sly
  • snakelike
  • snide
  • snotty
  • somber
  • sombre
  • sordid
  • sorrowful
  • sorry
  • sour
  • soured
  • sourish
  • spare
  • sparely
  • spiteful
  • splashy
  • spoiled
  • squalor
  • squeamish
  • stingily
  • stingy
  • stinky
  • suboptimal
  • subpar
  • substandard
  • sucky
  • suicidal
  • sullen
  • sunk
  • supercheap
  • swank
  • swanky
  • symptomatic
  • taboo
  • tabu
  • tacky
  • tainted
  • tawdry
  • tearful
  • terrible
  • terribly
  • thoughtless
  • threatening
  • tough
  • toxic
  • transgressing
  • trashily
  • trashy
  • troubled
  • troublesome
  • troubling
  • trumpery
  • turned
  • ugly
  • ultracheap
  • unacceptable
  • unacceptably
  • unauthorized
  • unbearably
  • unbecoming
  • unclean
  • uncongenial
  • uncontrollable
  • uncouth
  • under par
  • under the weather
  • uneasy
  • unethical
  • unfavorable
  • unfortunate
  • unfriendly
  • ungodly
  • ungovernable
  • unhappy
  • unhealthful
  • unhealthy
  • unholy
  • unkind
  • unkindly
  • unlawful
  • unlovely
  • unloving
  • unmannerly
  • unpalatable
  • unpleasant
  • unpleasing
  • unprincipled
  • unquiet
  • unrighteous
  • unruly
  • unsafe
  • unsatisfactorily
  • unsatisfactory
  • unsavory
  • unscrupulous
  • unseemly
  • unsound
  • unspeakable
  • unspeakably
  • unsuitably
  • untoward
  • unwelcome
  • unwell
  • unwholesome
  • upset
  • upsetting
  • useless
  • valueless
  • venomous
  • vexatious
  • vexing
  • vicious
  • vile
  • vilely
  • vileness
  • villainous
  • villainy
  • vindictive
  • virulent
  • vitiated
  • vitriolic
  • void
  • vulgar
  • vulgarly
  • wack
  • waggish
  • wailing
  • wanting
  • wayward
  • weak
  • weakly
  • weeping
  • wicked
  • wickedness
  • wild
  • wilful
  • willful
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • woozy
  • worried
  • worthless
  • wretched
  • wretchedly
  • wrong
  • wrongheaded
  • yucky
  • yukky

banal

  • arid
  • barren
  • blah
  • bland
  • boring
  • bromidic
  • canned
  • cardboard
  • cliche
  • cobwebby
  • colorless
  • common
  • commonplace
  • conventional
  • cookie-cutter
  • cornball
  • cornfed
  • corny
  • derivative
  • drab
  • dreary
  • drudging
  • dry
  • dull
  • dull as dishwater
  • dumb
  • dusty
  • everyday
  • flat
  • hack
  • hackney
  • hackneyed
  • heavy
  • ho-hum
  • hokey
  • humdrum
  • imitative
  • inane
  • innocuous
  • inoffensive
  • insipid
  • jading
  • jejune
  • leaden
  • lifeless
  • mild
  • milk-and-water
  • mind-numbing
  • monotonous
  • moth-eaten
  • mundane
  • musty
  • namby-pamby
  • noplace
  • normal
  • nothing
  • nowhere
  • numbing
  • obligatory
  • old
  • old hat
  • old-fashioned
  • ordinary
  • pabulum
  • pedantic
  • pedestrian
  • platitudinal
  • platitudinous
  • ponderous
  • prosaic
  • ready-made
  • rote
  • routine
  • shopworn
  • soft
  • square
  • stale
  • standard
  • stereotyped
  • stock
  • stodgy
  • stuffy
  • stupid
  • subdued
  • tame
  • tedious
  • threadbare
  • timeworn
  • tired
  • tiresome
  • tiring
  • tried-and-true
  • tripe
  • trite
  • twice-told
  • typical
  • undramatic
  • unexceptional
  • unexciting
  • unimaginative
  • uninspired
  • uninspiring
  • uninteresting
  • unoriginal
  • unrewarding
  • usual
  • vapid
  • watery
  • weak
  • wearisome
  • weary
  • wearying
  • well-worn
  • wishy-washy
  • zero

banausic

  • accessible
  • acquisitive
  • actionable
  • active
  • alive
  • all-around
  • all-round
  • applicable
  • applicative
  • applied
  • arid
  • available
  • banal
  • blah
  • bland
  • boring
  • bromidic
  • busy
  • carnal
  • civil
  • colorless
  • common
  • commonplace
  • dim
  • dime a dozen
  • down-to-earth
  • drab
  • dreary
  • droning
  • dull
  • dull as dishwater
  • earthly
  • earthly-minded
  • earthy
  • employed
  • everyday
  • flat
  • flat as pancake
  • fleshly
  • formal
  • functional
  • functioning
  • garden-variety
  • greedy
  • handy
  • heavy
  • ho-hum
  • humdrum
  • inane
  • insipid
  • jejune
  • labored
  • lay
  • lifeless
  • material
  • materialistic
  • mediocre
  • monotone
  • monotonous
  • mortal
  • mundane
  • nonsacred
  • nonspiritual
  • nothing
  • object-oriented
  • obtainable
  • operating
  • operative
  • ordinary
  • pedantic
  • pedestrian
  • physical
  • platitudinous
  • plodding
  • ponderous
  • possessive
  • practicable
  • practical
  • pragmatic
  • pragmatical
  • profane
  • prosaic
  • prosy
  • puts one to sleep
  • reachable
  • recurrent
  • reiterated
  • repetitious
  • repetitive
  • routine
  • run-of-the-mill
  • samely
  • secular
  • sensual
  • serviceable
  • sing-song
  • soporific
  • staid
  • stodgy
  • subcelestial
  • sublunary
  • tedious
  • temporal
  • terrestrial
  • tiresome
  • toneless
  • treadmill
  • truistic
  • turgid
  • ultrapractical
  • unchanged
  • unchanging
  • unexciting
  • unhallowed
  • uniform
  • unimaginative
  • uninflected
  • uninspired
  • uninteresting
  • unrelieved
  • unsacred
  • unsanctified
  • unspiritual
  • unvaried
  • unvarying
  • usable
  • useable
  • useful
  • utilitarian
  • vanilla
  • wearisome
  • wearying
  • weighty
  • white-bread
  • wishy-washy
  • workable
  • working
  • yawn producing

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