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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence.
  2. adj. Unconcerned; nonchalant: had a blasé attitude about housecleaning.
  3. adj. Very sophisticated.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Exhausted by enjoyment, especially by sensuous pleasures; having the healthy energies exhausted; weary and disgusted with life.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Unimpressed with something because of over-familiarity.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. 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.
  2. adj. very sophisticated; versed in the ways of the world.
  3. adj. uninterested and attaching little importance; -- of attitudes toward duties.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world
  2. adj. nonchalantly unconcerned
  3. adj. uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence

Etymologies

  1. 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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