blasé

[blah-zey, blah-zey, 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

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of blasé¹

C19: from French, past participle of blaser to cloy

Example Sentences

Cardinal Blase Cupich planned to give Durbin, a Democrat who is retiring at the end of his term, in recognition of his advocacy for immigrants.

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"It is ruthless in a way but he almost had this ability not to care. He was quite blase about the errors he made, even in training sometimes. But when you needed him he was there."

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"Previously, I guess I was quite blasé about work," he said.

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In Crescent City, a remote Northern California harbor town where tsunamis are a way of life, the Tuesday evening barflies gathered at Port O’Pints Brewing Co. were decidedly blasé about the possibility of impending disaster.

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It was such a beautiful, wonderful, heady time for me that the last time I was nominated, I was annoyingly blasé about it, and if I had known that it was going to be 20-plus years before I was invited to the party again, I think I would have had a better time.

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