What does deadpan mean?
Deadpan means Deliberately impassive or expressionless..
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/ˈdɛdpæn/ · adjective
Deliberately impassive or expressionless..
a deadpan face or look
deadpan behaviour or speech
The comedian remained deadpan.
A city-hired consultant from a firm called Urban Futures was booed repeatedly by the agitated homeowners as he talked deadpan, in bureaucratese, about his firm's "evidentiary record" pointing to blight in the neighborhood.
MAREK: But really the deadpan is key. You can essentially trick people into laughing at nothing.
Kidd deadpanned it, stared glassily back at Maitland.
Use deadpan when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Deadpan means Deliberately impassive or expressionless..
Common synonyms include poker-faced, deadpan comedy, deadpan humour, impassive.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
a deadpan face or look
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