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blasé

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈblɑːzeɪ/
  • General-American: /ˌblɑˈzeɪ/
  • General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with (Received Pronunciation) -ɑːzeɪ
  • rhymes with (General American) -eɪ

1

adj

Meaning 1

Unimpressed with something because of overfamiliarity.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: casual, indifferent, jaded, nonchalant, surfeited, unimpressed, adiaphroistic, apathetic, apathistical, blasé, blithe, deaf, cool, shiftless, dispassionate, dull, enervated, gallionic, halfhearted, heartless, impassive, ineffervescible, insouciant, insensible, languid, languorous, Laodicean, lethargic, listless, lackadaisical, lotophagous, lukewarm, meh, mopey, nonplussed, otiose, phlegmatic, pococurante, spiritless, supine, tepid, torpid, torpedinous, unaroused, uncaring, unconcerned, unenthusiastic, unimpressible, uninterested, unlively, unmoved, untouched, unzealous, world-weary

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Borrowed from French blasé (“blasé, jaded”), past participle of blaser (“to blunt, dull”), from Middle Dutch blâsen (“to blow, sound, brag”), from Old Dutch *blāsan, from Proto-West Germanic *blāsan (“to blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleh1- (“to blow; to bleat, cry”). Cognate with German blasen (“to blow”), English blaze (“to blow”), English blast.

Across languages

Translations

25 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Czech: blazeovaný — unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity
  • French: blasé — unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity
  • German: gleichgültig — unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity
  • German: gelangweilt — unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity
  • German: blasiert — unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity
  • Hungarian: unott — unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity
  • Hungarian: fásult — unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity
  • Hungarian: megcsömörlött — unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity
  • Hungarian: közönyös — unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity
  • Hungarian: flegmatikus — unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity
  • Hungarian: blazírt — unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity
  • Italian: blasé — unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity
  • Italian: disincantato — unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity
  • Italian: indifferente — unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity
  • Italian: scettico — unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity
  • Italian: disilluso — unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity
  • Polish: zblazowany — unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity
  • Portuguese: blasé — unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity
  • Russian: пресы́щенный (presýščennyj) — unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity
  • Russian: пресы́тившийся (presýtivšijsja) — unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity
  • Serbo-Croatian: blaziran — unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity
  • Spanish: displicente — unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity
  • Spanish: indiferente — unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity
  • Turkish: usanmış — unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity
  • Turkish: bezgin — unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity