Coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world, next to crude oil. It’s also one of the oldest commodities, with over 2.25 billion cups of coffee consumed worldwide daily.
JEJUNE
insipid, jejune
(adjective) lacking interest or significance or impact; “an insipid personality”; “jejune novel”
adolescent, jejune, juvenile, puerile
(adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; “adolescent insecurity”; “jejune responses to our problems”; “their behavior was juvenile”; “puerile jokes”
inadequate, poor, short, jejune
(adjective) of insufficient quantity to meet a need; “an inadequate income”; “a poor salary”; “money is short”; “on short rations”; “food is in short supply”; “short on experience”; “the jejune diets of the very poor”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
jejune (comparative more jejune, superlative most jejune)
(dated, now rare) Not nutritious.
(by extension, of a speech or an argument) Lacking matter; empty; devoid of substance.
Synonyms: dry, insipid, poor
Naive; simplistic.
Synonym: Thesaurus:naive
Source: Wiktionary
Je*june", a. Etym: [L. jejunus fasting, hungry, dry, barren, scanty; of unknown origin.]
1. Lacking matter; empty; void of substance.
2. Void of interest; barren; meager; dry; as, a jejune narrative. - Je*june"ly, adv.
– Je*june"ness, n. Bacon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
6 May 2025
HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
Coffee Trivia
