Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence.
- adj. Unconcerned; nonchalant: had a blasé attitude about housecleaning.
- adj. Very sophisticated.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Exhausted by enjoyment, especially by sensuous pleasures; having the healthy energies exhausted; weary and disgusted with life.
Wiktionary
- adj. Unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having the sensibilities deadened by excess or frequency of enjoyment; sated or surfeited with pleasure; uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence; used up.
- adj. very sophisticated; versed in the ways of the world.
- adj. uninterested and attaching little importance; -- of attitudes toward duties.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world
- adj. nonchalantly unconcerned
- adj. uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence
Etymologies
- French, from past participle of blaser, to cloy, from French dialectal, to be chronically hung over, probably from Middle Dutch blāsen, to blow up, swell; see bhlē- in Indo-European roots.
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English with Tongue
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