different between blase vs unexcited

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

un- +? excited

Adjective

unexcited (comparative more unexcited, superlative most unexcited)

1. Not feeling excitement or keen interest; placid; bored.

   Having seen the film twice before, I felt distinctly unexcited at the prospect of a third viewing.

2. Not in a state of excitation.
   • 1759, Literary Memoirs of Germany and the North

     From some excited bodies there proceeds for a certain distance to others unexcited, a light, which is reflected from the latter to the former, and in the reflexion snaps; and which upon touching the skin of a man or beast is felt with a smarting: This snapping light is call'd the electrical Sparks.

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