jejune

adj

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin iēiūnus (“fasting”).

1. Not nutritious.
2. Lacking matter; empty; devoid of substance.
3. Naive; simplistic.

   “I have often wondered why some late Writers should sensure Tully's Letters for being too naked and jejune, when that to his Friend Lucceius, which the Reader will find in this Collection, is a plain Demonstration to the contrary?”

   “This renders the recognition of alternatives a paramount necessity for a logic of discovery, which can no longer dismiss them with a jejune chapter on 'disjunctive propositions'.”