Word to the Wise: Jejune

"Jejune" (juh-JOON) - from the Latin for "meager/weak" - is another way of saying childish or lacking in maturity.

Example (as used by Jedediah Purdy in For Common Things): "By the inflection of his voice, the expression of his face, and the motion of his body, he signals that he is aware of all the ways he may be thought silly or jejune, and that he might even think so himself."

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