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blase

blase is the alternative form of blasé.

Meaning of blasé

Adjective

blasé (comparative more blasé, superlative most blasé)

  1. Unimpressed, indifferent, especially because of overfamiliarity.
    • "Are people who are blasé ever in love? Just see how badly you play your part!" said Madame Wilson, laughingly; […] "Let us now speak seriously, my dear Scipion; yes, I believe you to be blasé—but blasé as regards all false pleasures, all deceptive enjoyments.[…]"1847, Eugène Sue, “Lumineau”, in Martin the Foundling; or, The Memoirs of a Valet de Chambre, New York, N.Y.: William H. Colyer, […], →OCLC, page 21, column 1

Proper noun capitalized: Blase

Blase

  1. A male given name from Latin.

Origin of blase

A rather rare spelling variant of Blaise, from Latin Blasius.

Words formed from blase

Questions about blase

What does blase mean?
Blase means a male given name from Latin.
What is blase the alternative form of?
Blase is the alternative form of blasé.
What part of speech is blase?
Blase is a proper noun.

Words near blase in the dictionary

  1. Blaschkes
  2. Blaschko
  3. Blaschko's line
  4. Blaschko's lines
  5. Blasdell
  6. blase
  7. blasely
  8. blaseness
  9. Blaser
  10. Blasers
  11. blash

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blase (page history and authors); Blase (page history and authors); blasé (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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