fazed

British  

/ feɪzd /

adjective

1. disconcerted; worried; disturbed

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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

Even with her new exposure, Rodrigo told The Times that she wasn’t fazed by her stardom.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

If oil prices remain around their current levels and below $100, the U.S. market at least shouldn’t be too fazed.

From Barron's • Mar. 6, 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

Many strategists had stressed that U.S. stocks typically aren’t fazed by Washington’s failures to operate, and their point looks on target now that government agencies are getting back to business.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 12, 2025

Such quick, arbitrary, effective, and wholesale annihilation fazed the surviving ant armies not one whit.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols