fazed
Britishadjective
Explanation
Someone who's fazed is upset or bothered. If you're fazed by getting a bad grade in a class, you might be nervous right before you get an important paper back. If you're fazed by loud noises, you'll want to wear ear plugs at a rock concert, and if you're fazed by movie violence, you should read reviews before you watch a film, so you'll be prepared to cover your eyes. Fazed is often confused with phased, which means "carried out in stages." The verb faze, or "disturb," is at the root of fazed, which comes from Kentish dialect — feeze means "frighten, alarm, or discomfit."
Example Sentences
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As it happens, however, Tesla investors don’t seem to have been fazed by Bloomberg’s report.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026
Aditya Bhave, head of U.S. economics at the Bank of America, however, is little fazed by the potential broader impact on consumption.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026
Kotowski, for one, isn’t fazed by the noise.
From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026
Louise works with children with special needs and while she said "finding out that you don't have a perfect baby is never easy to hear", she was not fazed.
From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026
He had almost certainly read about the 16:20 three-mile time trial Ulbrickson’s varsity had turned in, but the news couldn’t have fazed him.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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