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blasé

[ blah-zey, blah-zey; French bla-zey ]

adjective

  1. indifferent to or bored with life; unimpressed, as or as if from an excess of worldly pleasures.

    Synonyms: world-weary, jaded, apathetic



blasé

/ ˈblɑːzeɪ /

adjective

  1. indifferent to something because of familiarity or surfeit
  2. lacking enthusiasm; bored


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Word History and Origins

Origin of blasé1

1810–20; < French, past participle of blaser to cloy, sicken from surfeit, perhaps < Dutch blasen to blow; blast

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Word History and Origins

Origin of blasé1

C19: from French, past participle of blaser to cloy

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Example Sentences

The girls were so blasé about the men who came in to flirt with them—I mean genuinely blasé.

Why do Tea Partiers and Americans seem so blasé about a default?

This might explain why the entire police squad is so incredibly blasé.

Washington Republicans remain rather blasé about the impact of the upcoming sequester.

In New York, people are notoriously blasé, especially when viewed from afar.

I stood at the portière and announced Mrs. Gushington-Andrews in my most blasé but butlerian tones.

All save myself had of course seen thunder-storms in Lunismar, but none were blasé.

The public to whom they address themselves is more blasé than ignorant, and has more need to be stirred up than to be taught.

At an age when other young men affect to be blasé and world weary he was delightfully and fearlessly boyish.

It is a book for "blasé" people, a book which a reader with moral health will not read without a certain feeling of uneasiness.

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