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Definitions: Blase |
BlaseAdjective1. 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". 2. Uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence; "his blase indifference"; "a petulent blase air"; "the bored gaze of the successful film star". 3. Nonchalantly unconcerned; "a blase attitude about housecleaning". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "blase" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Blase (pronounce blah-zay ). Surfeited with pleasure. A man blasé is one who has had full swing to all the pleasures of life, and has no longer any appetite for any of them. A worn out debauchée (French, blaser, to exhaust with enjoyment). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: BlaseSynonyms: bored (adj), worldly (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Expectance | Adjective: expecting; Verb: unamazed, astonished at nothing; blase; (weary); expected; Verb: foreseen; unsurprising. |
Satiety | Adjective: satiated; Verb: overgorged; blase, used up, sick of, heartsick. |
Weariness | Weary, tired; Verb: drowsy; (sleepy); uninterested, flagging, used up, worn out, blase, life-weary, weary of life; sick of. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Blase |
| English words defined with "blase": bored ♦ worldly. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Blase" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (sickens), German (bladder, blister, bubble, cyst). |
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 | Cinema; nonchalant; airy; aloof; apathetic; blase; calm; careless; casual; cold; collected; composed; cool; detached; disimpassioned; disinterested; dispassionate; easy; effortless; frigid; happy; impassive; imperturbable; incurious; indifferent; insoucia. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Blase" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 58.82% of the time. "Blase" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 58.82% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (singular) | 29.41% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 11.76% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "blase" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Blase | Last name | 200 | 34,214 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
blase | 16 |
blase bonpane | 4 |
blase niere stein | 4 |
blase keith | 3 |
blase ltd marketing solution | 3 |
blase kirsten | 3 |
blase pascal | 2 |
blase st | 2 |
blase katheter | 2 |
blase volle | 2 |
blase faire.com | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "blase"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Arabic | ملل من الملذات, متخم لا مبالي. (various references) | ||||||||||
Farsi | بیزارازعشرت دراثرافراطدرخوشی . (various references) | ||||||||||
German | blasiert (airy, blasé, upstage). (various references) | ||||||||||
Indonesian | bosan (be bored, boring, tired of). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | aseblay пресыщенный (blasй, satiate). (various references) | ||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "blase" (pronounced blā"z) |
| 4 | b l ā" z | ablaze, blaze. |
| 3 | -l ā" z | allays, ballets, chalets, clays, delays, displays, filets, glaze, lase, lays, leis, leys, malaise, plays, replays. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ables, bales, sable. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-l-s" | |
-1 letter: able, albs, ales, bale, bals, base, bels, blae, labs, lase, leas, sabe, sale, seal, slab. | |
-2 letters: abs, alb, ale, als, bal, bas, bel, els, lab, las, lea, sab, sae, sal, sea, sel. | |
-3 letters: ab, ae, al, as, ba, be, el, es, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-l-s" | |
+1 letter: abeles, ablest, abseil, ambles, babels, bagels, balers, basely, belays, belgas, blades, blames, blares, blazes, bleaks, blears, bleats, cables, fables, gables, labels, sables, stable, suable, tables, usable. | |
+2 letters: abelias, ablates, abseils, absolve, albedos, albites, alibies, amblers, arables, astilbe, babbles, baffles, bailees, bailers, baileys, bailies, balases, baldest, baldies, baleens, balkers, ballers, ballets, ballies, bangles, barbels, barless, barleys, barrels, bascule, bastile, battles, baubles, bawlers, beadles, beagles, beastly, becalms, beclasp, bedlams, befalls, beflags, befleas, begalls, beglads, belauds, beldams, beleaps, belugas, bestial, bewails, bialies, blamers, blasted, blaster, blastie, blazers, boatels, bolases, braless, bubales, byelaws, cablets, dabbles, disable, embalms, enables, fablers, flambes, gabbles, gambles, garbles, herbals, keblahs, labrets, lambers, lambies, lesbian, losable, marbles, nebulas, obelias, oblates, rabbles, rambles, salable, savable, sayable, scabble, seeable, sewable, shamble, sizable, skiable, slabbed, slabber, sowable, stabile, stabled, stabler, stables, sublate, subsale, tablets, useable, useably, verbals, wabbles, wambles, warbles. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 6C 61 73 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-.. .- ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101100 01100001 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B l a s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006C 0061 0073 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3678678571 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Sounds 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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