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blase

bla·sé
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [blah-zey, blah-zey; French bla-zey]
    • /blɑˈzeɪ, ˈblɑ zeɪ; French blaˈzeɪ/
    • /ˌblɑːˈzeɪ/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [blah-zey, blah-zey; French bla-zey]
    • /blɑˈzeɪ, ˈblɑ zeɪ; French blaˈzeɪ/

Definitions of blase word

  • adjective blase If you describe someone as blasé, you mean that they are not easily impressed, excited, or worried by things, usually because they have seen or experienced them before. 3
  • adjective blase indifferent or bored through familiarity 3
  • adjective blase indifferent to something because of familiarity or surfeit 3
  • adjective blase lacking enthusiasm; bored 3
  • adjective blase having indulged in pleasure so much as to be unexcited by it; satiated and bored 3
  • adjective blase indifferent to or bored with life; unimpressed, as or as if from an excess of worldly pleasures. 1

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Origin of blase

First appearance:

before 1810
One of the 40% newest English words
1810-20; < French, past participle of blaser to cloy, sicken from surfeit, perhaps < Dutch blasen to blow; see blast

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Parts of speech for Blase

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

blase popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 47% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

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Synonyms for blase

adj blase

  • apathetic — If you describe someone as apathetic, you are criticizing them because they do not seem to be interested in or enthusiastic about doing anything.
  • bored — If you are bored, you feel tired and impatient because you have lost interest in something or because you have nothing to do.
  • cool — Something that is cool has a temperature which is low but not very low.
  • disenchanted — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
  • fed up — simple past tense and past participle of feed.

Antonyms for blase

adj blase

  • bland — If you describe someone or something as bland, you mean that they are rather dull and unexciting.
  • calmative — (of a remedy or agent) sedative
  • dull as dishwater — water in which dishes are, or have been, washed.
  • milk-and-water — ineffective; wishy-washy; lacking will or strength.

adjective blase

  • nerdy — Slang. of or like a nerd.
  • nonirritant — A substance that is not an irritant.
  • nonirritating — Not irritating; not an irritant.
  • wimpy — of, relating to, or characteristic of a wimp.

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