blasé

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

/ blɑˈzeɪ, ˈblɑ zeɪ; French blaˈzeɪ /

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adjective

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

OTHER WORDS FOR blasé

apathetic, jaded, cloyed, sated, glutted, surfeited, world-weary.

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Origin of blasé

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

Words nearby blasé

blare, blarney, Blarney stone, blart, Blasco Ibáñez, blasé, blaspheme, blasphemer, blasphemous, blasphemy, blast

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How to use blasé in a sentence

Jeffery “blasé” Tsang, an American DPS player and one of the two players on the Spitfire roster not coming from the Hurricane, said he’ll be based in Los Angeles at the start of the season.
The OWL’s London Spitfire are hoping to go big by going home|Teddy Amenabar|February 11, 2021|Washington Post
The signature tremble in his voice can either sound urgent, as if he were shivering in the cold, or artfully blasé, as if he were singing along to a Ready for the World tune in his ear buds as he prowls the frozen foods aisle.
At the weirdest Super Bowl, the Weeknd came to play|Chris Richards|February 8, 2021|Washington Post
“For security, Mom,” he responded, equally incredulous that I could be so blasé about such matters.
All this security in D.C. to thwart terrorism, yet the threat came from within|Petula Dvorak|January 11, 2021|Washington Post
Occasionally, one will plod into a nearby community, looking as blasé as a shopper on his way to the grocery store.
Invasion of the hippos: Colombia is running out of time to tackle Pablo Escobar’s wildest legacy|Sarah Kaplan|January 11, 2021|Washington Post

I’ve become fairly blasé about these cold-blooded creatures.
Buffett’s big bet on Japan sends global stocks higher|Bernhard Warner|August 31, 2020|Fortune
All the blase girls—the San Francisco girls do get so blase, poor things—are threatening to go in for chickens.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
St. Blase prayed and made the sign of the cross over the boy, and behold, he was cured.
Mary, Help of Christians|Various
I can stand a surprising amount of this, and am by no means blase yet.
An Autobiography|Elizabeth Butler
They were long blase on oaths; they numbered among themselves veterans and virtuosi of perjury.
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte|Karl Marx
He had what Carley called the New York masculine face, blase and lined, with eyes that gleamed, yet had no fire.
The Call of the Canyon|Zane Grey

British Dictionary definitions for blasé

blasé

/ (ˈblɑːzeɪ) /

adjective

indifferent to something because of familiarity or surfeit

lacking enthusiasm; bored

Word Origin for blasé

C19: from French, past participle of blaser to cloy

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