different between blase vs insensible

English

Pronunciation

Adjective

blase

1. Alternative spelling of blasé

Anagrams

• Ables, Basel, Basle, Bleas, Sabel, Sable, ables, albes, baels, bales, beals, labes, sable, saleb

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blaz/
• Homophones: blasent, blases

Etymology 1

Verb

blase

1. first-person singular present indicative of blaser
2. third-person singular present indicative of blaser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of blaser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of blaser
5. second-person singular imperative of blaser

Etymology 2

Clipping of blason.

Noun

blase m (plural blases) (slang)

1. name
2. nose

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?z?

Verb

blase

1. inflection of blasen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English blæse, blase, from Proto-Germanic *blas?.

Alternative forms

• (Early ME) blaese, blease
• blese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bla?z(?)/, /?bl??z(?)/

Noun

blase (plural blases or blasen)

1. A fire or burning, especially referring to its flaming.
2. (rare) A lamp or signal; fire used as lighting.
3. (rare) A bright thing or object.

Descendants

• English: blaze
• Scots: bleize, blase, blese, bleise, bleis, bleeze
• Yola: blaze, bleaze

References

• “bl?se, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-27.

Etymology 2

Verb

blase

1. Alternative form of blasen

Old English

Alternative forms

• blæse

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *blas?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bl?.se/, [?bl?.ze]

Noun

blase f

1. torch
2. blaze

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: blase, blaese, blease
  • English: blaze
  • Scots: bleize, blase, blese, bleise, bleis, bleeze
  • Yola: blaze, bleaze

English

Etymology

From Old French insensible, from Late Latin ?ns?nsibilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?s?n.s?.bl?/
• Hyphenation: in?sen?si?ble

Adjective

insensible (comparative more insensible, superlative most insensible)

1. Unable to be perceived by the senses.
   • They fall away, / And languish with insensible decay.

2. Incapable or deprived of physical sensation.
3. Unable to be understood; unintelligible.
4. Not sensible or reasonable; meaningless.
   • 1736, Matthew Hale, Historia Placitorum Coronæ

     If it make the indictment be insensible or uncertain, […] it shall be quashed.

5. Incapable of mental feeling; indifferent.

   • Lost in their loves, insensible of shame.

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition (1995), page 138

     In spite of her deep-rooted dislike, she could not be insensible to the compliment of such a man's affection...

6. Incapable of emotional feeling; callous; apathetic.

   Synonym: insensitive

Antonyms

• sensible

Derived terms

• insensibility
• insensibly

Translations

French

Etymology

From Old French insensible, from Late Latin ?ns?nsibilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.s??.sibl/
• Homophone: insensibles

Adjective

insensible (plural insensibles)

1. insensible
2. impervious

Further reading

• “insensible” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin ?ns?nsibilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /insen?sible/, [?n.s?n?si.??le]

Adjective

insensible (plural insensibles)

1. insensible, insensitive, callous, cold, tactless

   Antonym: sensible

Related terms

• insensibilidad (possibly derived)

Further reading

• “insensible” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.