Use of 'jejune'
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Would you say that the use of jejune (simplistic, naive) is common among native speakers in everyday English?
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Tom
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No, definitely not. Clive
- No, definitely not.
- Clive
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Maybe I've seen it once or twice in the past 5 years. (And I read a lot!) I have never heard it used in conversation.
Juvenile and sophomoric are far more common.
0Mr. TomWould you say that the use of jejune (simplistic, naive) is common among native speakers in everyday English?
Say that to a native speaker and they'll look at you like you've got two heads — except for maybe one in five million.
Basically, it's an SAT word. That is, it only appears on the Scholastic Aptitude/Assessment Test, a college admissio
0The Oxford English Dictionary places "jejune" in their Frequency Band 3, "not commonly found in general text types like novels and newspapers, but at the same time … not overly opaque or obscure". Other words in that Band are "contumacious", "agglutinative", and "quantized". "Jejune" is in my active vocabulary, for what that is worth, but I would not use it unless I was talking to someo
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