deadpan

Speech parts

1. deadpan - Noun

2. deadpan - Adjective

3. deadpan - Verb

4. deadpan - Adverb

5. deadpan - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

deliberately impassive in manner

without betraying any feeling

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

poker-faced graves stony stoic flat empty wooden frozen humorous blank funny vacant inscrutable impassive unreadable
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Antonyms

soupy saccharine moving emotional affecting touching
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Phrases with the word

deadpan humour deadpan comedy deadpan expression

Anagrams

pedanda

Examples

People, particularly over-moralistic Americans, have often seen me as a pessimist and humourless to boot, yet I think I have an almost maniacal sense of humour. The problem is that it's rather deadpan. J. G. Ballard

Was he deadpan because he didn't care anymore? How much boredom can you meet in three hundred years? Larry Niven

So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever. Patrick Warburton

Nice blouse, Sage,” Adrian told me, deadpan. "It really brings out the khaki in your pants. Richelle Mead

I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it. Edward Ruscha

I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the 'Boston Phoenix,' and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that's where I first saw 'deadpan.' Steven Wright

Close letter words and terms

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