Blase
indifferent to or bored with life; unimpressed, as or as if from an excess of worldly pleasures.
Historical Examples
Remarks Bill Nye
Ancestors Gertrude Atherton
Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II Karl Ritter von Scherzer
Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser
The Call of the Canyon Zane Grey
The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition Rudyard Kipling
Saint’s Progress John Galsworthy
Monsieur de Camors, Complete Octave Feuillet
Theft Jack London
Child of a Century, Complete Alfred de Musset
adjective
indifferent to something because of familiarity or surfeit
lacking enthusiasm; bored
adj.
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