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When you claim that something is banal, you do not like it because you think it is ordinary, dull, commonplace, and boring.
A bravura performance, such as of a highly technical work for the violin, is done with consummate skill.
Someone who is callow is young, immature, and inexperienced; consequently, they possess little knowledge of the world.
If someone shows consummate skill at doing something, that person’s skill is very great or almost perfect in every way.
Someone who is ebullient is filled with enthusiasm, very happy, and extremely excited about something.
An effervescent individual is lively, very happy, and enthusiastic.
If you describe a person, group, or civilization as effete, you mean it is weak, exhausted, powerless, unproductive, and/or corrupt.
Efficacy is the ability or power to produce an expected effect or result.
Someone who is epicurean derives great pleasure in material and sensual things, especially good food and drink.
Someone who is erudite is steeped in knowledge because they have read and studied extensively.
Someone who has had an illustrious professional career is celebrated and outstanding in their given field of expertise.
If you describe someone’s behavior as inane, you think it is completely stupid or without much meaning.
Something insipid is dull, boring, and has no interesting features; for example, insipid food has no taste or little flavor.
Something mediocre is average or ordinary in quality; it’s just OK.
Something that is mundane is very ordinary and not interesting or exciting, especially because it happens very often.
If you describe something as palatable, such as an idea or suggestion, you believe that people will accept it; palatable food or drink is agreeable to the taste.
If someone is pallid, they look very pale in an unattractive and unhealthy way.
If you describe something as pedestrian, you think that it is ordinary and not interesting.
When someone exhibits profundity, they display great intellectual depth and understanding; profundity can also be the depth or complexity of something.
Something prosaic is dull, boring, and ordinary.
A puerile person is childish, immature, and foolish.
Something is quintessential when it is a perfect example of its type.
If something is redolent of something else, it has features that make you think of it; this word also refers to a particular odor or scent that can be pleasantly strong.
A sagacious person is wise, intelligent, and has the ability to make good practical decisions.
A savant is a person who knows a lot about a subject, either via a lifetime of learning or by considerable natural ability.
A scintillating conversation, speech, or performance is brilliantly clever, interesting, and lively.
A seasoned professional has a great deal of experience in what they do.
A stupendous event or accomplishment is amazing, wonderful, or spectacular.
A superlative deed or act is excellent, outstanding, or the best of its kind.
If you are suffering from tedium, you are bored.
Something tenuous is thin, weak, and unconvincing.
If you refer to something as a trifle, you mean that it is of little or no importance or value.
A trite remark or idea is so overused that it is no longer interesting or novel.
A tyro has just begun learning something.
If you describe something as unsavory, you mean that it is unpleasant or morally unacceptable.
Something vapid is dull, boring, and/or tiresome.
Something vintage is the best of its kind and of excellent quality; it is of a past time and is considered a classic example of its type.
A virtuoso is someone who is very skillful at something, especially playing a musical instrument.
If someone vitiates something, they make it less effective, weaker, or reduced in quality.
Adj.
jejune
ji-JOON
Context
Gilly agreed that the speaker’s presentation had been full of uninformed, simplistic, and jejune ideas. Gilly was a specialist on the topic herself, and she had hoped for a more interesting talk instead of the empty, uninteresting, and jejune one she heard. Next time, she would find out the background of the lecturer, and if they were unschooled, jejune, or lacking in information, she would not attend.
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How might you feel while sitting through a jejune lecture on school activities?
Not engaged and wishing the lecture contained more valuable information.
Confused and frustrated by the overall disorganization of the presentation.
Inspired and excited to get involved in the many things happening on campus.
If you describe ideas as jejune, you are saying they are childish and uninteresting; the adjective jejune also describes those having little experience, maturity, or knowledge.
Jet June Bugs Can you believe that all Chet has ever talked about are jet June bugs? He thinks they sound cool, but are black bugs really all that interesting? And to talk about them his entire life? It's the only idea Chet has ever had! His boring jet June bug obsession is jejune.
Examples
As a younger man, he and his brother had chased with jejune enthusiasm a host of possible entropy-busting perpetual motion machines. Their contraptions proved not only to not function at all, but they had often already been thought up by ingenious others.
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NPR
All of "The Crack Up" is an endlessly repeated definition of "jejune"—the dry and hungry gasping of a mind empty of new ideas, or even of new attitudes to meet a fast-changing world.
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The New York Times
