unfazed
calm, not surprised or worried
TRANSLATION
unfazed = unbeeindruckt, unbewegt, unberührt --- GOOGLE INDEX unfazed: approximately 3,300,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Renault UNFAZED by collapse of Israeli e-car battery partner
(Deutsche Welle news headline)
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New Yorkers walking outside Penn Station on Friday seemed UNFAZED by the heat.
(BusinessWeek magazine)
(Deutsche Welle news headline)
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New Yorkers walking outside Penn Station on Friday seemed UNFAZED by the heat.
(BusinessWeek magazine)
Did you
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unfazed
adjective
- not surprised or worried
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Unfazed is the opposite of "fazed," which means to surprise or worry someone. Faze is an American English variant of the Kentish dialect "feeze" (frighten, alarm), which further stems from the Old English fesian/fysian, to "drive away." Faze can also be combined with "not" to express the same meaning (He was not fazed by the noise from the construction site).
Faze should not be confused with "phase," which is pronounced the same but means something completely different. Linguists call such terms homophones. While we don't have space to list all of the English homophones, below are several examples.
Three-way homophones:
- cite (to mention something), sight (vision), site (location)
- weather, whether (if), wether (a castrated ram)
Two-way homophones:
- allowed (permitted), aloud (to speak out loud)
- bare (unclothed, without furnishings), bear (as in the animal)
- berry (the fruit of a plant), bury (to place in the ground)
- cache (computer memory), cash (money)
- pray (make a devout request), prey (to hunt and/or catch)
- waist (the midsection of the body between the ribs and the pelvis), waste (rubbish)
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SYNONYMS
unperturbed, undisturbed, not worried, unconcerned, calm, composed, collected, unagitated
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"He was unfazed by the interview question 'What was your best mistake?'."
adjective
- not surprised or worried
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Unfazed is the opposite of "fazed," which means to surprise or worry someone. Faze is an American English variant of the Kentish dialect "feeze" (frighten, alarm), which further stems from the Old English fesian/fysian, to "drive away." Faze can also be combined with "not" to express the same meaning (He was not fazed by the noise from the construction site).
Faze should not be confused with "phase," which is pronounced the same but means something completely different. Linguists call such terms homophones. While we don't have space to list all of the English homophones, below are several examples.
Three-way homophones:
- cite (to mention something), sight (vision), site (location)
- weather, whether (if), wether (a castrated ram)
Two-way homophones:
- allowed (permitted), aloud (to speak out loud)
- bare (unclothed, without furnishings), bear (as in the animal)
- berry (the fruit of a plant), bury (to place in the ground)
- cache (computer memory), cash (money)
- pray (make a devout request), prey (to hunt and/or catch)
- waist (the midsection of the body between the ribs and the pelvis), waste (rubbish)
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SYNONYMS
unperturbed, undisturbed, not worried, unconcerned, calm, composed, collected, unagitated
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"He was unfazed by the interview question 'What was your best mistake?'."
