Blase

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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