Blas'e \Bla*s['e]"\ (bl[.a]*z[asl]"), a. [F., p. p. of blaser.]
1. Having the sensibilities deadened by excess or frequency
of enjoyment; sated or surfeited with pleasure;
uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence;
used up.
Syn: bored.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
2. very sophisticated; versed in the ways of the world. the
blase traveler refers to the ocean he has crossed as `the
pond'
Syn: knowing, worldly.
[WordNet 1.5]
3. uninterested and attaching little importance; -- of
attitudes toward duties. a blase attitude about
housecleaning
Syn: unconcerned.
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
blase
adj 1: very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in
the ways of the world; "the blase traveler refers to
the ocean he has crossed as `the pond'"; "the benefits
of his worldly wisdom" [syn: worldly]
2: uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence;
"his blase indifference"; "a petulent blase air"; "the
bored gaze of the successful film star" [syn: bored]
3: nonchalantly unconcerned; "a blase attitude about
housecleaning"
WordNet (r) 2.0
157 Moby Thesaurus words for "blase":
Laodicean, Olympian, aloof, apathetic, ataractic, benumbed, blah,
bored, carefree, careless, casual, comatose, cool, cosmopolitan,
cosmopolite, dead, debilitated, degage, desensitized, detached,
devil-may-care, disabused, disappointed, disenchanted,
disillusioned, disinterested, dispassionate, dispirited,
disregardful, dopey, dormant, droopy, drugged, dull, easy,
easygoing, emotionless, enervated, enlightened, exanimate,
experienced, fed-up, free and easy, good and tired, heartless,
heavy, hebetudinous, heedless, hopeless, in a stupor, inanimate,
inattentive, incurious, indifferent, inert, inexcitable,
insouciant, irked, jaded, knowing, lackadaisical, languid,
languorous, leaden, lethargic, life-weary, lifeless, light-hearted,
listless, lumpish, mature, matured, melancholic, melancholy,
mindless, mondaine, moribund, negligent, nonchalant,
not born yesterday, numb, numbed, offhand, old, passive,
perfunctory, phlegmatic, pluckless, pococurante, pooped, practiced,
put straight, reckless, regardless, resigned, ripe, ripened,
robbed of illusion, sagacious, sated, satiated, seasoned,
set right, sick, sick of, slack, sleepy, slow, sluggish, somnolent,
sophisticate, sophisticated, soporific, spiritless, splenetic,
spunkless, stagnant, stagnating, stoic, stultified, stupefied,
supercilious, superior, supine, tired, tired of, tired of living,
tired to death, torpid, tried, tried and true, turned-off,
unanxious, uncaring, uncharmed, unconcerned, undeceived,
undiscriminating, unimpressed, uninterested, unmindful, unmoved,
unsolicitous, unspelled, vegetable, vegetative, veteran, wan,
wearied, weariful, weary, weary unto death, withdrawn, world-weary,
world-wise, worldly, worldly-wise
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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