jejune
61insipid — [adj1] dull, uninteresting anemic, arid, banal, beige, blah*, bland, characterless, colorless, commonplace, dead*, drab, driveling, dry, feeble, flat, ho hum*, inane, innocuous, jejune, lifeless, limp, mild, mundane, nebbish, nothing, ordinary,… …
62dinner — [13] The etymological meaning of dinner is ‘breakfast’. The word comes ultimately from an unrecorded Vulgar Latin verb *disjūnāre, a compound formed from the prefix dis ‘un ’ and jējūnus ‘fasting, hungry’ (source of English jejune [17]): hence,… …
63tameness — noun 1. the attribute of having been domesticated • Syn: ↑domestication • Ant: ↑wildness • Derivationally related forms: ↑tame • Hypernyms: ↑tractability, ↑ …
64vapidity — noun the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated • Syn: ↑jejunity, ↑jejuneness, ↑tameness, ↑vapidness • Derivationally related forms: ↑vapid (for: ↑vapidness), ↑ …
65vapidness — noun the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated • Syn: ↑jejunity, ↑jejuneness, ↑tameness, ↑vapidity • Derivationally related forms: ↑vapid, ↑vapid (for: ↑ …
66je|ju|num — «jih JOO nuhm», noun. Anatomy. the middle portion of the small intestine, between the duodenum and the ileum. ╂[< New Latin jejunum < Latin jējūnum, neuter of jējūnus; see etym. under jejune (Cf. ↑jejune)] …
67je·june — /ʤıˈʤuːn/ adj formal 1 : not interesting : ↑boring the novel s jejune plot 2 : too simple She made jejune remarks about life and art …
68Dine — Dine, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dined}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dining}.] [F. d[^i]ner, OF. disner, LL. disnare, contr. fr. an assumed disjunare; dis + an assumed junare (OF. juner) to fast, for L. jejunare, fr. jejunus fasting. See {Jejune}, and cf.… …
69Dined — Dine Dine, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dined}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dining}.] [F. d[^i]ner, OF. disner, LL. disnare, contr. fr. an assumed disjunare; dis + an assumed junare (OF. juner) to fast, for L. jejunare, fr. jejunus fasting. See {Jejune}, and cf.… …
70Dining — Dine Dine, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dined}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dining}.] [F. d[^i]ner, OF. disner, LL. disnare, contr. fr. an assumed disjunare; dis + an assumed junare (OF. juner) to fast, for L. jejunare, fr. jejunus fasting. See {Jejune}, and cf.… …
