Meaning & use
jejune
Naive, simplistic, or lacking in intellectual substance and maturity.
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The critic called the film's plot jejune, full of cliches and shallow characters.
Her jejune argument ignored decades of established research on the subject.
A note on using this word
Jejune can also mean dull or dry, but its more common modern sense is intellectually immature or shallow.
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