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

“And Lord Fredrick is so blasé about the whole thing! ‘All in good time,’ he says, in that indifferent way of his, but of course he is at his club more often than not, so nothing that goes on at Ashton Place troubles him; why should it?”

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It is easy to be blase about Erling Haaland, Manchester City's unique goalscoring machine.

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"I was initially quite blasé and assumed it would be a cyst or similar," she said.

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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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